Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Monday said that MRI and CT scan machines would soon be installed in three more hospitals in the State.
Before this, MRI and CT scan machines were made operational in four hospitals of Haryana.
Vij said that these three hospitals where these machines would be installed include Bhagat Phool Singh (BPS) Government Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan at Sonepat, Shaheed Hassan Khan Mewati Government Medical College, Nalhar at Mewat, and Civil Hospital at Panipat.
In these medical colleges, 1.5 Tesla MRI and 128 Slice CT scan machines would soon be made operational.
The Health Minister said that in the first phase, MRI and CT scan machines have been installed and operationalised in four hospitals of the state which included Civil Hospitals in Panchkula, Bhiwani, Faridabad and Gurgaon. In these hospitals, 1.5 Tesla MRI and 16 Slice CT scan have been installed. For this, trained doctors and staff have been posted in these hospitals so that patients do not face any problem.
Vij said that these machines are being installed under public private partnership. Under this, people are provided with cheaper and free of cost healthcare facilities. Free services are being provided to patients belonging to BPl families, residents of urban slums, patients receiving disability allowance from the government, unattended roadside accident victims, patients belonging to scheduled caste families, state government employees, pensioners and their dependents and poor patients who do not belong to any of these categories. The cost of treatment of such patients is borne by the Health Department of Haryana.
Besides this, rates which have been finalized at each centre are less than half of those of the private centres. This facility is being provided in the state hospitals at the rates which are also much lower than those at Government Hospital, Sector 16 here and PGIMER, he added.