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SANT KUMAR SHARMA
Jammu, November 14, 2009:
A new website of the health department of the state can become a trendsetter as far as openness and details regarding state employees are concerned.
The website www.jkhealth.org was launched on October 21 in Srinagar by the Health Minister, Mr Sham Lal Sharma, with much fanfare. Since then, the website has been constantly undergoing updations.
The website has been designed and hosted by a Jammu-based information technology (IT) firm, Say Technologies, which specializes in customized solutions for its clients. The website has put all the information regarding the department in the virtual world of Internet. This will help in streamlining the department, bringing transparency as also accountability, according to department officials..
The most important feature of the website is the huge amount of information regarding manpower, including its deployment. Details regarding doctors such as their places of posting, tenures (province, district-wise), date of birth and retirement, stay at particular station(s) etc have been provided. The department is also going to make similar details regarding other cadres of the health department online soon. This can have far-reaching consequences for transfer policy in future as all details regarding the postings will be available on the Net.
A decentralized mechanism for information updation enables the Director Health Services of Jammu as also the Kashmir regions have been issued authentications for editing and updating information on day-to-day basis.
Data regarding all government health-care infrastructure like diistrict hospitals, sub-district hospitals, primary health centers and allopathic dispensaries etc have been compiled meticulously.
The website provides details about the activities of Directorate of Health Services of Jammu as also Kashmir, Directorate of Family Welfare, RCH & NRHM, Jammu and Kashmir State AIDS Prevention and Control Society, Directorate of ISM and Controller, Drug and Food organization..
In less than a month’s time, the website has started attracting regular traffic and by Saturday afternoon, over 9,500 visitors had surfed the site.
In the feedback section, people have started pouring in their complaints. On November 14, a resident of Ganderbal Javaid Bhat wrote that he visited Sub District Hospital Ganderbal on Friday evening and found it enveloped in darkness. The officials said that the power supply had been snapped and for emergency situations, no diesel generation (DG) sets have been made available. He has asked sarcastically whether it was possible to offer any treatment to patients in darkness.
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