The Health Minister of Uttarakhand, Surendra Singh Negi has directed the State Health department to be in a state of high alert in view of prevailing disaster like situation created by cloudburst and excessive rainfall in many parts of the State.
The Minister gave the direction in a meeting of top health department officials which was held in Vidhan Sabha on Monday. Negi told the Principal Secretary (PS) health and Director General (DG) health services to ensure that all offices of Chief Medical Officers (CMO) and Chief Medical Superintendents (CMS) of all hospitals are in a state of preparedness to deal with any eventuality.
He said that the stock of all medicines should be kept in all the district hospitals, Community Health Centres (CHC) and Primary Health Centres (PHC) of State. Negi said that all the doctors should be compulsorily available in the places of their postings.
He said that in case of any untoward incident involving human casualty, the postmortem of the deceased should be held on the spot.
Negi directed the PS and DG health to interact with the CMOs and submit a daily report to him. The Minister also asked the officers to remain vigilant on spread of diseases like diarrhea which are common during monsoon period. The meeting was attended by the Principal Secretary Health Om Prakash, DG health services Dr Kusum Narriyal and other senior officers of medical health and family welfare department.