To give a major facelift to the state health services where government hospital would give one a Rs comfort’ as well as best Rs medical care’ as facilitated by leading private hospital, the Health Department in association with World Bank had planned a major revamp.
While the Health services of the state would be divided into half a dozen clusters with each headed by a director rank officer, the facilities in the government hospitals will be upgraded. Rs Rs We had decided to go for a major revamp of Health Services which mainly included augmentation of government hospitals and decentralisation of health administration”, revealed government spokesman, Siddharthnath Singh, who is also Health Minister here in the State.
Talking to Rs The Pioneer’ here on Saturday afternoon, Singh said that he made a presentation during meeting with Junaid Ahmad, the Country Head of the WB who was in the state capital on Friday, who out rightly supported government’s proposal to improve the health services where the Government run hospitals could compete with the private hospitals.
Rs Rs The condition of government run 175 hospitals in the State is not in very good shape so to facilitate best medical facilities as well as comfort of a private hospital, we decided to facelift 50 of the hospitals in the first phase and we also fixed December 2018 as the target to accomplice the mission”, Singh revealed while disclosing that medical secretary had been also assigned as project director. He said that for modernization, each government hospital needs a fund of Rs 3 crore to which the World Bank officials gave their clearance.
He said that once they will complete first phase, remaining hospitals will be taken for same facelift. He claimed that the during the facelift exercise, they will improve the basic infrastructure of Outdoor Patients Department (OPDs) and other basic amenities of the district hospitals which will further lead to strengthening of Primary Health Centres and Community Health Centres. The World Bank assistance in the health services is a landmark achievement of the state government, he claimed.
Siddharth Nath further said that the administrative set up of DG Medical Services would soon be also revamped with the state being divided into six clusters each to be headed by a director level doctor. Instead of sitting in the Directorate General at lucknow, they would be sitting in the field which, in turn, would give fresh impetus to region-specific health problems with each clusters comprises of districts coming under three divisional headquarters. The directors will have full strength of administrative officials of medical and health services to execute best health care in the State.
He said the the WB Director sounded committed to work with the UP government as a leveraging partner for strengthening the department of Medical Health and Family Welfare in the state. ”Proposed areas for strengthening include the operationalization of E-Hospital, streamlining of Human Resources, ensuring availability of equipment, face-lifting , facility branding among others,” he added. Singh also informed that there is a sharp decline in deaths due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) this year so to further control the casualties, they will start JE vaccination from January next year.