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| CM seats March 31 deadline for making 21 PHCs functional | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 22: Chief Minister, Mr. Omar Abdullah has asked the Health and Medical Education Department to complete and operationalize the under execution 21 buildings of Primary Health Centres and other health institutions in the State by March 31. He announced immediate release of Rs. 5.12 crore for this purpose and also asked the department to formulate a draft Drug Policy for the State at the earliest.
The Chief Minister was chairing a review meeting of Health and Medical Education Department, here today.
Chief Minister emphasized the need for consolidation to optimally utilize available healthcare infrastructure in the State. He also called for evolving short and long-term strategies to provide improved healthcare facilities to the people across Jammu and Kashmir.
The Chief Minister asked the department to resume implementation of Janani Suraksha Yojana, a Central scheme providing cash assistance to eligible delivering mothers, besides expediting procurement of 125 ambulances to provide referral transport facility for various health institutions of the State.
The Chief Minister also instructed the department to ensure up-gradation of tele-medicine facility at six health institutions/hospitals in the State before the end of the current financial year.
The Chief Minister also ordered the department to initiate steps for starting PG Diploma Course in Ophthalmology in Government Medical College, Jammu and PG Diploma in ENT & Orthopaedics in Government Medical College, Srinagar. He said that Diploma Course of Dental Hygienist be also started in the Government Dental College, Srinagar.
The Chief Minister said that issues regarding provision of Central assistance for building health infrastructure in the State would be pursued at the highest level with the Government of India.
While emphasizing the need to strengthen rural health system of the State as also the Government Medical and Dental Colleges, Mr. Abdullah directed that early steps be taken for streamlining the process of filling up of the vacant positions. He said the service conditions of those serving in rural and difficult areas also need to be improved, at the same time accountability too needs to be ensured.
Asserting that everything possible will be done to improve the healthcare facilities, the Chief Minister said that all available resources should be put in place to complete the ongoing construction projects in the health sector in a phased manner so that these are made operational at the earliest to benefit the people.
The Chief Minister laid emphasis on strengthening diagnostic and treatment facilities in district and sub-district hospitals, community health centres and primary health centres so that best possible medicare services are made available to the people nearer to their homes, adding that it will also lessen the burden on the hospitals in Srinagar and Jammu cities.
Taking a review of the 100-day Action Plan of the Health department, the Chief Minister said that all those buildings and other facilities which are nearing completion or have been completed and where no additional staff is required, should be operationalized immediately.
Mr. Abdullah had a detailed review of the status of the health institution buildings including District Hospitals of Budgam, Anantnag, Baramulla, Bandipora, Handwara, Kathua, Rajouri, Doda and Poonch, Sub-District Hospitals Kulgam, Kokernag, Zainapora, Sopore, Sogam, Kishtwar and Bhaderwah, besides construction programmes of Dental Colleges at Srinagar and Jammu, Radiation Oncology Block of GMC, Srinagar, 200-bedded additional ward of SMGS Hospital, Jammu, additional block of Government Hospital, Sarwal and OPD block of Gandhinagar Hospital, besides 50-bedded Unani Hospital at Srinagar.
The Chief Minister also took stock of the physical and financial achievements made under National Rural Health Mission in the State as well as Prime Minister's Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) where under the Government Medical Colleges of Jammu and Srinagar are being up-graded to the level of AIIMS at a cost of Rs. 120 crore each.
Minister for Finance, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Abdul Rahim Rather, Minister for Health, Mr. Sham Lal Sharma, Political Advisor to the Chief Minister, Mr. Devender Singh Rana, Chief Secretary, Mr. S. S. Kapur, Financial Commissioner, Planning and Development, Mr. S. L. Bhat, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr. Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, Commissioner/Secretary, Finance, Mr. B. B. Vyas, Commissioner/Secretary, Health and Medical Education, Mr. Atul Dulloo, Principals of Government Medical Colleges of Srinagar and Jammu, Directors of Health Services of Kashmir and Jammu Divisions, Managing Director, JKPCC and other senior officers of the Health department participated in the meeting.
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