Hygienic food would be served free of cost to indoor patients in Government hospitals in all districts of Haryana.
The directions to introduce this facility have been issued by the Chief Minister Manohar lal and Health Minister Anil Vij.
Haryana Director General, Health Services, Dr Kamla Singh, who was in Kurukshetra on Saturday said that the State Government has started negotiations with NGO Satkar Bhojan to implement this facility.
She said that general and special cadres of doctors would be created to generate interest of doctors towards government hospitals. Also, the scheme of coloured bed sheets for indoor patients would be implemented in all government hospitals from the month of May. Each day of the week would have a different colour of sheets, she said.
During the visit, Civil Surgeon, Dr S K Nain gave detailed information about the hospital to Director General and other members of the inspection team and also put before them some demands to enhance the facilities for patients.
later while interacting with mediapersons, Dr Kamla Singh said that during the Gita Jayanti Utsav, the Chief Minister had initiated a scheme in the form of Satkar Bhojan to provide food to tourists at affordable rates. On similar lines, now process is on to provide hygienic food to patients free of cost. The State Government would bear the expenditure to implement the scheme, she said.
She said that buildings, infrastructure, medicines and facilities would be provided according to International Standards of National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Health care Providers (NABH) in 84 government hospitals of the state. Under this, the problem of shortage of doctors and staff in government hospitals would be dealt with.
It would be ensured that patients get healthcare services for 24 hours on all seven days. For this, a scheme would soon be formulated, she added.
In reply to a question, the Director General said that hospital of Kurukshetra would soon be upgraded from 100-bedded to 200-bedded hospital by adding a new building and all technical problems would be resolved.