CM directs all the health depts to complete the work within time-limit
Hamidia Hospital Bhopal will have a new building. Sultania Hospital will also be included in this project. Reviewing activities of Health and Medical Education Departments here on Wednesday, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan directed that apart from completion of buildings of hospitals announced at Ratlam, Vidisha and Shahdol, teaching should also be started within two years.
Chouhan gave the task at the meeting that hospitals attached to medical colleges in the State should be developed at national level where treatment facility for major diseases like bypass surgery and cancer is also available.
Specialist doctors and necessary supporting staff should be recruited by relaxing rules. All arrangements including infrastructure, equipments etc. should be completed within time-limit. Health Minister Narottam Mishra, Minister of State Sharad Jain and Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa were present on the occasion.
The Chief Minister reviewed activities of Public Health and Medical Education departments separately for about 3 hours. He said that effective improvement is necessary in all facilities pertaining to sanitation, equipments, medicine distribution, treatment etc to establish image of Government hospitals.
He directed to attach priority to doctors’ recruitment. Assistance under Rajya Beemari Sahayata Yojana should be provided promptly.
For this, process should be simplified further. Process is on to fill up long-pending vacancies at a rapid pace. The meeting was informed that widespread reforms have been done in hospitals and departmental procedures due to sustained efforts. Maternal & infant mortality rate is being brought down and crude birth rate effectively improved in the State. Free medicines are being provided to about 4 lakh patients and free pathology tests facility to about 75,000 patients daily in the Government hospitals.
About 5,000 patients are brought by vehicles. About 41,000 patients are being given meals daily. Regarding improvements in the Government hospital arrangements, Health Minister Narottam Mishra said that he will undertake surprise inspections of hospitals. The meeting was informed that Madhya Pradesh is the only State in the country where public health has been brought under the purview of Public Service Delivery Guarantee Act.