Health Minister Ajay Chandrakar picked a broom and swept a street in the campus of Dr BR Ambedkar Memorial Hospital in the city on Thursday to launch cleanliness fortnight for spreading awareness on ensuring cleanliness and better sanitation.
Meanwhile, the Minister also visited different wards of the hospital to take stock of health care facilities and gave specific directives to doctors and officials for ensuring better facilities to patients.
“Cleanliness is a continuous process and the mega-cleanliness drive should not be stopped only on the basis of its success and failure. Through this fortnight, an attempt to raise awareness among people has been made,” said Chandrakar while interacting with officials and doctors.
Along with the Health Minister, leader of Opposition in Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) Suryakant Rathore, corporators of different municipal wards, Raipur Collector Thakur Ram Singh, Dr B R Ambedkar Superintendent Dr Vivek Choudhary, Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr Sonwani and others, have shown their active participation.
According to Chandrakar, people from across the State arrive at Dr B R Ambedkar hospital for treatment and soon the State Government is going to provide better health care facilities in Government hospitals operational in Chhattisgarh. Work in this connection is underway.
‘Kayakalp Yojana’ has been launched to guarantee cleanliness in Government hospitals equivalent to private hospitals, he said.
Soon mindset of people regarding Government hospital’s cleanliness arrangement is going to change, said Chandrakar and called upon the people to support hospital management in maintaining hygiene in the hospital campus.