Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
About SAKSHAM: सक्षम
SAKSHAM is an initiative by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India, designed to provide digital learning opportunities for healthcare professionals across the country. Developed by the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi.
SAKSHAM provides the unique opportunity to enhance the quality of healthcare education and training, ensuring better-equipped professionals across the country
SAKSHAM is a comprehensive Learning Management Information System (LMIS) that offers a wide range of features:
Centralized Repository: Serves as a centralized repository for health-related training resources and educational materials for easy accessibility.
Knowledge Sharing & Best Practices: This portal documents and shares the best practices in health education and training
Specialized Training Programs: SAKSHAM helps in enhancing domain expertise in the healthcare sector through specialized training programs
Inclusive Capacity Building: The platform promotes inclusive capacity building and knowledge sharing across the healthcare domain
National Database: SAKSHAM acts as a national database for trained healthcare professionals.
Objectives of SAKSHAM
Focused Learning for Health Workforce
Vision: To provide world class, readily accessible continued education for all healthcare professionals in the country without disrupting regular services.
Mission: To provide standard training to the healthcare staff across the horizons of public and private care subsectors, covering professionals from primary care centers located in rural and remote areas all the way up to tertiary care and corporate hospitals in metropolitan cities.
Online and Personalized Training Program
The portal will host theme based customized courses developed in collaboration with global healthcare agencies like WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, and reputed national/international institutes, peer reviewed and approved by domain experts from the concerned departments, open for all healthcare workers in the country.
Integration with Training Management Information System (TMIS)
This portal will also integrate the robust training information system of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and preserve the on-site training data alongside the courses being consumed on the portal. This will enable single-window access to information on all health-related trainings happening in the country.
