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| Mehbooba seeks GoI’s intervention for rebuilding JK's flood-hit infrastructure in healthcare | | | Early Times Report
NEW DELHI, Oct 15: Calling for immediate restoration of flood-hit healthcare infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President and Member Parliament, Mehbooba Mufti today said the Government of India must without any delay step-in to revamp, on priority, the dilapidated medicare facilities in the State and ensure adequate supply of quality drugs to the patients. Speaking at the Parliamentary Consultative Committee meeting on Health and Family Welfare, Mehbooba urged the Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan to announce special financial package for rebuilding critical care infrastructure in health sector which has been severely damaged by the floods at almost all the leading hospitals in Kashmir.
"Most of the vital diagnostic equipments including CT Scans, X-Ray Plants, Laboratories and blood banks at Srinagar's referral hospitals - SMHS, Bone and Joints, Lal Ded, JVC and GB Pant - have suffered immense damage due to floods and the same needs to be restored on priority," she said and added that given the magnitude of the damages, the situation calls for both material and technical intervention, sooner the better, from the Government of India to bring the health sector back on rails.
"There is also a pressing need for not only opening more medical colleges in the State, but it should have more paramedical institutes like nursing colleges as well," she said and added that in the aftermath of the flood tragedy the Government of India should give a serious thought to the PDP's proposal for setting up an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Kashmir as has been done in various other states. She also demanded setting up of National Institute of Public Health in J&K. Mehbooba also stressed the need for strengthening referral healthcare facilities at the district level by setting up integrated super-specialty, trauma, maternity, pediatric and other such institutions in the peripheries so that the patient rush is lessened at existing facilities in the urban centres.
"A major crisis witnessed during floods was that due to complete breakdown of the healthcare infrastructure in Srinagar and lack of connectivity, the patients had to be diverted to less equipped hospitals both within and outside the city," she said and added that availability of integrated healthcare facilities in the peripheries could help in coping up with the crisis-like situations in the event of any natural calamity. Mehbooba also called for moving the health sector from a "cure" to a "care" model. She called for introducing "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" which seeks to link the quality of care with the cost of care. "This law must seek to rebalance the system's resource allocation and reward the value of care over volume of care," she said. The Union Health Minister assured the PDP President that her suggestions would be given a serious thought. |
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