ASHA: Health Worker Registry
Download the Full Report Here. A federated health worker registry is proposed that will be maintained by the Central Government and will store “identified minimum required informative fields” and will assign a “unique identification number” for every ASHA worker. The ASHA registry will have pointers to the state ASHA enrollment repositories or databases (DBT, HR etc) that will push relevant data to the central registry for every new ASHA enrollment, any information updation or change in employment status or location. Whenever a new ASHA health worker gets selected for final recruitment, gets enrolled through an online common cloud-based portal or application by a trained staff appointed by the district health dept or a private enrollment agency at the PHC or assigned anganwadi center maintained at village or district level. The enrollment process mandates ADHAAR card number authentication with the UIDAI and assigns a unique health worker identification number in the central