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| Latest equipments to facilitate medicare: Jandial | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 24
Secretary Health and Medical Education Mr. K. B. Jandial has said that government is committed to provide better health care facilities to the people at village level across the state.
This was stated by the Secretary H&ME at a Hello DD Programme held at Jammu Doordarshan here last evening.
Responding to callers from Doda and Kishtwar districts, Mr. Jandial said that one PHC and 10 health centres would be set in each constituency of the erstwhile Doda district. He said that recently the Chief Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad has inaugurated the OPD block of the 200-beded upcoming new district hospital being constructed at a cost of Rs. 32 crore. The OPD block costing Rs. 4 crore had been completed in two years. Surgical, medical, ortho, ENT, ophthalmology, physiotherapy, gynae, and obsterics facilities have been made available in the block. The block has also examination rooms and lab for conducting various teats. Orders for CT Scan for the hospital have already been placed. Regarding call from Kishtwar district, he said that recently an OPD block was also inaugurated of the upcoming district hospital completed at a cost of Rs. 1.5 crore besides 100-beded hospital building will be completed by March 2009 at a cost of Rs. 16 crore. He said that the government has also set up 18 district health societies including in new districts of Reasi, Samba, Kulgam and Ganderwal. He informed that the government has engaged 131 MBBS, 130 AYUSH doctors and 747 paramedical on contractual basis to strengthen health institutions. He said that 24 CHCs are being upgraded to FRUs and 70 upgraded to IPHS.
Secretary H&ME informed that the government has released Rs. 78 crore out of 80 crore for construction and upgradation DHs and SDHs. He said that Neonatal ICUs are being set up in DHs and 7 DHs taken up this year besides 6 private hospitals brought under PPP mode under Maternal Health Programme. He said that the government has constituted 6745 village health and sanitation committees to strengthen the medicare facilities in rural areas besides 45023 village health and nutrition days organized in Anganwadi Centres in 2007-08. Regarding institutional deliveries, he said that 91234 were made in 2005-06 and 150466 in 2007-08. Jammu and Kashmir Government Medical Colleges taken up for upgradation to AIIMS level under PMSSY, GMC Jammu fist among 13 such medical colleges in the country to launch construction sate equity of Rs. 20 crore for each GMC utilized under the scheme. He said that work on 6 out of 8 sanctioned Trauma Centres taken p besides 13 advanced mobile medical units at block level and 6 MMUs being established.
Mr. Jandial said that AMT schools of Jammu and Srinagar are being upgraded to Nursing Colleges besides a tele helpline was launched to register grievances for immediate redressal.
Regarding construction of Super Specialty hospital at Reshamgarh colony, he informed that the government has sanctioned Rs. 120 crore for construction of upcoming hospital. He said that it is a significant development project in the health sector aimed at upgrading the existing GMC Jammu hospital to the level of AIIMS, New Delhi. Six super specialties of neurology, neurosurgery, cardiology, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, urology and renal transplant, nephrology and dialysis will be housed in the new complex, work on which was started in February this year. The upcoming building will also have a 250-bed hospital.
Anchor of the programme Mr. Adarsh Paul Gupta and Producer Mr. Ravinder Naz were also present on the occasion. |
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