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| Drug policy ready for implementation: Sham | | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, May 15: Minister for Health, Sham Lal Sharma has said that Drug Policy would be implemented shortly to check sale of spurious drugs while as efforts are on to set up a nursing council in the State.
The Minister was addressing at a conference organized by All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists here at SKICC today. Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Minister of State for Health and Medical Education, Javed Ahmad Dar besides senior officers of health department were present on the occasion.
Sharma said with the ranking of Public Health Centres (PHCs) number one in the country, medicare facilities have been improved across the State. He said Government has taken several initiatives to create proper health infrastructure, adding hundreds of PHCs and health centers have been shifted into newly constructed buildings.
The Minister said that the birth rate in the state is quite satisfactory, adding free medicare facilities are being provided to the people, particularly to senior citizens and the people belonging to poor sections of the society. He said last year 1.12 lakh births took place in the State, while department generated a revenue of Rs 14 crore out of various pathological tests, X-Ray, ECG, MRI, CT Scan and other facilities of vital nature provided to the patients during the year.
Sham said there was no drug policy in the State and the same has been formulated which will be implemented shortly, adding that efforts are being made to have our own Nursing Council for which the matter has been taken up with the Centre.
Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah while speaking on the occasion called for holding awareness camps in rural areas about the usage of medicines.
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