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Baljit Kaur

Assistant Director, Directorate of Health Service (DHS), PunjabGovernment of India

Biography

Trained myself in surgery and have practiced Voluntary Surgical Contraception in World's first Family Planning National Program in India for the last 33 years. I am a national and international trainer for NSV. I was nominated by the Government of India to be trained by author of the NSV procedure in 1999. I have had landmark achievements in this specialization, including a National Award by the Government of India. On job experience of three decades spanning primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare, taught me that it took a family for a patient to recover. India's provincial Government of Punjab appointed me as the nodal officer for implementing the Care Companion Program from its inception till I superannuated early 2023. Training and implementing methodology applied in Punjab has been a model that was replicated by Noora Health. Have been active in generating awareness to eschew sex selective practices to achieve SDG-5 goal for Gender Equality. Mission is to touch more lives.