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| Rs.580 crores being spent on upgrading health facilities in J&K | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 18 : The state Government has framed a number of schemes for upgrading the rural health services under a centrally sponsored scheme. The centre has sanctioned Rs.264 crores under the National Rural Health Mission for the current financial year for modernizing and improving health care facilities in the rural
areas. Part of the amount is to be utilized on setting 11 mobile medical units in accident prone areas in the state.
The state Government is spending, during the current financial year, Rs.315 crores on upgrading health services and on improving mobile health facilities.
Official sources said that the state also has Rs 51.65 crore available under the centrally-sponsored scheme from last year''s unspent funds. They said Rs 5.02 crore will be spent on procurement of mobile medical Units for 11 districts of the state namely Rajouri, Poonch, Udhampur, Reasi, Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban, Leh, Kargil, Kupwara
and Bandipora.
A large number of road accidents take place in some areas of these districts due to hilly terrain. Many deaths occur due to non-availability of timely medical care to the injured.
"Rs 1.18 crore have been sanctioned for establishing two Control Rooms at Jammu and Srinagar, the twin capitals of the state for regulating ambulance services (Dial 108) through Global Positional System (GPS)," the officials said.
Among other plans under the NRHM, the state government intends to spend Rs 34 crore for expediting the works in infrastructure development in Community Health Centres (CHC), Prime Health Centres (PHC) and sub-centres in the state, they said.
An amount of Rs two crore has been earmarked for upgrading four district hospitals in the state while Rs 1.50 crore have been approved for construction of regional drug warehouses at Jammu and Srinagar, the officials added.
Under the scheme, the state government will be recruiting 52 doctors and 260 paramedics to overcome the staff shortage in various health institutions in the state.(KIP)
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