District Collector P Dayanand directed the officers of health department to deploy sanitary workers for cleaning of hospitals round the clock.
He issued these instructions in the meeting of Jeevandeep Samiti held at the district hospital’s meeting hall here. During the meeting Dayanand emphasised on maintaining proper cleanliness in the hospital premises and warned that negligence on the part of officials concerned will not be tolerated in this regard.
Under Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) programme, the Collector asked officials concerned to ensure treatment of malnourished children coming from remote areas. The Collector asked the gathering to maintain adequate stock of lifesaving medicines and also look after medical equipments in the hospital. The Collector took decisions of covering a garden opposite to OPD by fencing, installing plastic sheets at the windows, purchasing vacuum cleaner and two-seater benches for the hospital. With an aim to curb Malaria, instructions were issued to promote use of mosquito-net among people.
He also directed to ensure availability of all kinds of medicines in all the health and sub-health centres. Monthly reports of different health schemes to benefit the patients coming to the district hospital were presented during the meet. The reports included number of normal and cesarean delivery, family planning, MTP, ASBY, cataract operations, NSEP, operation to control TB, snack and dog bite cases etc.
Zila panchayat CEO Bipin Manjhi, the committee’s members, doctors and officials concerned from PWD and PHE attended the meeting.