A male health worker is responsible for providing primary healthcare services to 3000-5000 people in rural areas. Their duties include fever surveillance and malaria treatment, reporting infectious diseases, promoting environmental sanitation and immunizations, providing family planning services and basic nutrition guidance, registering vital events like births and deaths, treating minor ailments, participating in community health programs and meetings, and maintaining accurate patient records.

1. A health worker (male ) will cover a population of 3000
in tribal areas and 5000 in non tribal areas attached to a
subcenter.
He will make a visit to each family ones a fortnight
according to fixed calendar of visit and have his visit to
each house marked on the wall in the prescribed form.
He will carry out the following function in the village and
hamlets allotted to the subcenters.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES OF
MULTIPURPOSE HEALTH WORKER

2. Fever surveillance.
Report to health supervisor (male) for Additional
action.
Acute Diarrheal diseases and Notifiable infectious
diseases.
Environmental sanitation.
immunization.
Family planning .
Nutrition.
Vital events.
Primary medical care.
Team activities.
Record keeping.

3. Fever surveillance
 Identify fever cases
 Make thick and thin blood films of all fever cases
 Send the slides for laboratory examination
 Administer presumptive anti malaria treatment to all
fever cases
 Record the result of examination of blood films.
 Give radial treatment of all malaria positive cases.

4. Report to health supervisor (male)
for additional action
He will assist the male health supervisor during focal spray and
other remedial measure .he will conduct the contact and mass
blood survey and follow up all the positive cases .
 Educate the community on the importance of blood films
examination for fever cases , treatment of fever cases ( insecticidal
spraying of houses , larviciding measure and other measures to
control the spread of malaria)
 If the cases of fever has rash , report them to the health supervisor
male
 Take containment measures until the arrival of the health
supervisor(male) i.e. isolation of cases with rash
 Educate the community on the importance of immunization care
to be taken in case of an outbreak of fever with rash the
importance of reporting all cases of fever with rash to health
supervisor (male)

5. Acute diarrheal Disease and
notifiable infectious Disease

6. Vital events
 Enquire and detect about births and deaths occurring
in the areas , record them in the non statutory births
and deaths registers to be maintained by them.
 To check and verify births and deaths registration
done by the statutory registers of births and deaths
and improve the quality and quantity of registration.
 He will act as statutory registrar of birth and deaths.

7. Primary medical care
 He will attend to treatment of minor ailments in order
to render first line treatment for simple ailments as per
the standing instructions given by the director of
public health and preventive medicine from time to
time and render 1st aid.

8. Team activity
 Attend and participate in the staff meetings at PHC
 Coordinate his activities with the health workers
(female) and other health workers including the Dais
in regard to campaign activities.
 He will assist in conducting mass media activities such
as film shows.

9. Record keeping
 Survey all the facilities in his area and collect general
information about each village locality and family in
his house.
 Prepare , maintain and utilize family records and
village registers and other registers prescribed from
time to time.
 Maintain the family register correctly and update it
during it every visit.