Uttarakhand Health Minister Surendra Singh Negi presided over a meeting with department officers at his office in the Vidhan Sabha campus and reviewed medical facilities being run under Public -Private Partnership (PPP) mode in the State. The Minister also discussed on Chief Minister Health Insurance Scheme with the officials. Negi said that the first priority of doctors should be to cure the deceases of their patients with humanity.
He informed the officials that the Uttarakhand Chief Minister was not happy the way community health centres were being run under PPP mode in the State. He directed the officials concerned to think over it apart from taking measures to improve services. The chief medical officers were directed to conduct inspection of community health centres randomly and those found negligent on duty should be penalised. Ultrasound and X-ray machines should be provided to all the community health centres in the state, he added.