The State Government’s medical health service will be strengthened by appointing doctors to all posts in the district hospitals. The State Health Minister Surendra Singh Negi said this while chairing a review meeting with Kumaon region officials concerned at the Nainital club on Sunday. Negi said that doctors will be appointed to all the vacant positions in the district hospitals of the State. In addition to this, facility will also be arranged to provide doctors accommodation in the hospital.
He said that surplus doctors in the district will be transferred to posts as and when required. All chief medical officers have been directed to provide vehicle as required during raids to be conducted by drug inspectors. After being posted, the new doctors in each district will have to work under the supervision of a senior doctor for a period of six months in order to provide them learning experience. The Minister further averred that the State authorities will hold screening camps block-wise across the state from the month of August.
These screening camps will have provisions including two mobile treatment vehicles accompanied by physician, woman doctor and child specialist doctor with the second vehicle carrying a pathology laboratory, x-ray machine with a laboratory technician with a doctor. Medicines will be provided free of cost in these screening camps apart from which persons diagnosed to be in need of operation will be identified and sent to bigger hospitals for necessary treatment. A follow up camp will also be organised a month later in the same location.