Chief Secretary Anthony Desa has directed that every District Collector should regularly review health programmes. The pace of Mamta Abhiyan should be accelerated for more effective maternal and infant health protection. Collectors putting in best performance will be rewarded.
The first prize will be of Rs 1 lakh. Maximum attention should be paid to hold Mamta Diwas every first Monday apart from family welfare activities, vaccination of children against seasonal and other diseases. The Chief Secretary was holding a video-conferencing from NIC room at Mantralaya with district collectors and health officers here on Saturday.
The conference was informed that 200 newly constructed buildings of health centres will be inaugurated in the state in November. As many as 1100 buildings of health centres will be completed this year. A sum of Rs 78 crore has been sanctioned for sanitation in hospitals in the state.
The Chief Secretary directed that apart from collectors, officers and employees of Health Department and district level officers of other departments should also take active part in effective implementation of health schemes. He said that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has included in his list of priorities School Chalen Ham Abhiyan, Krishi Mahotsav, development of industries as well as acceleration of pace of health schemes. The Chief Secretary sought scheme-wise implementation of health programmes in districts.
Principal Secretary Praveer Krishna said that Mamta Abhiyan is underway in the state to reduce maternal and infant mortality rate. Work has been taken up to upgrade hospitals. Paperless e-review meetings are being held every week at the state level. Apart from ASHA workers, other health employees putting in outstanding services will also be rewarded, he added.
Sharing experience of inspection of some primary health centres of Rewa, Harda and Chhatarpur districts, Union Joint Secretary Health Shri Manoj Jhalani hoped that works of institutional delivery, vaccination and treatment will be done with the same efficiency.
He said that cleanliness has close connection with health. Therefore, hospitals should be cleaner. Shri Jhalani expressed happiness over effective implementation of health programmes in the state. Health Commissioner Pankaj Agrawal and Mission Director of NHM Faiz Ahmad Kidwai asked for further accelerating pace of schemes’ implementation at district level.