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EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Mar 24: Waking up to the long-standing public demand of making requisite healthcare arrangements to save human lives in the state's accident-prone areas, the health ministry has assured that well-equipped critical care ambulances would soon be made functional at all such places.
Scores of people die every year on the killer J&K roads, including the national highway, because of the non-availability of on-time medical treatment.
Talking to scribes in a press conference here today, health minister Sham Lal Sharma said to meet any eventuality in accident-prone areas, well-equipped critical care ambulances would soon be made available.
The government was very much concerned about the loss of precious human lives in road accidents and other calamities due to the delay in their medical treatment, he added.
''The national highway from Lakahanpur to Kashmir to Poonch will be provided health facilities,'' he added. Sham said in a bid to bring about work culture, transparency and accountability in the system, the health department had become the first in the country to release its 'professional audit'.
''There was a need to evolve a scientific system which could drive this highly educated force to bring obvious change in the old system and for that professional audit of all health care institutions was
introduced successfully in the department of health,'' he added. He said the health department had made a remarkable progress in last one year but there was still a lot to be done to reach the pinnacle.
''Efforts are on to streamline the system in the health department while a website launched recently www.jkhealth.org will also be of great help to the people as they can collect detailed information
about doctors of both the divisions,'' the minister informed. He said professional audit unit from health ministry, including the senior faculty, visited block headquarters and conducted the evaluation of the institutions on Indian Public Health standards to find out deficiencies in the system. |
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