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| 245 health institutions being upgraded as referral units: Sham | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 26: Minister for Health, Sham Lal Sharma today said that the Government is proposing to upgrade as requirements establish 160 more PHCs and 85 Community Health Centres and Sub-District Hospitals with adequate staff, in the first phase in the State. Replying to the Demand of Grants for the Health and allied departments in Legisla-tive Assembly today, the Minister said that telemedicine facilities have been introduced at Kupwara, Poonch, Kathua, Leh and Kargil besides 20 Blood Banks, including 3 Blood Component Separation Facility units, 15 X-ray plants, 14 Anesthesia Machi-nes and 31 Dental units, have been provided to various health institutions in the State. The Minister said construction of 108 health institutions ,including PHCs, Allopathic and ISM Dispens-aries, at an estimated cost of Rs. 117.50 crore, have been taken up while construction of 32 buildings for various health institutions have been completed. He further informed the House that 125 ambulances have been procured and efforts are underway to improve the availability of human resource in the health institutions in rural areas. Sham Lal said that, 21 specialists, 105 doctors and 482 paramedical staff have been engaged on contractual basis and additional 2000 doctors and paramedics are proposed to be engaged under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). The Minister said that as a result of transparency and enhan-ced work culture, a remarkable improvement is visible in the health care delivery system with Outdoor Patient Department (OPD) showing 14per cent increase, as compared to the last year. He said expending on health care delivery has increased 32per cent this fiscal. He said revenue generation in Jammu division has been registered at 32per cent while it is all time high of 49per cent in the Kashmir division. Sharma said the Professional Audit Report placed on the table of the House would help to rationalize expansion of health centres on need basis, and the document would be a road map for future expansion. The Minister further informed that adequate measures have been taken to improve the availability of doctors in the remote and far-off areas, adding that 10per cent of seats in postgraduate (PG) courses will be reserved for serving in these areas. The doctors, having served in rural areas, shall be given additional marks for getting PG seats, the Minister added.
Keeping in view the importance of health department, the annual plan allocation for the sector has also been increased to Rs. 293 crore in next year's budget, as compared to last year's Rs. 203 crore. He said Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) has been revived in the State.
The Minister said that AYUSH system of medicines is being promoted in a big way in the State adding that the Centre has earmarked Rs. 10 crore each for setting up of Government Ayurvedic and Unani Colleges in Jammu and Srinagar.
Due to introduction of professional audit in the department, the overall functioning has improved substantially, he said, adding that in Jammu division, OPD, institutional deliveries, surgery and revenue realization has increased by 14per cent, 32per cent, 50 per cent and 32 per cent, respectively while in Kashmir division OPD, caesarian sections and revenue generation has increased by 3per cent, 10per cent and 50per cent respectively.
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