A high-level meeting was held on Monday under the chairmanship of Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Kishore Das for providing quality health service in Jharsuguda district.
Director of Medical Education and Training Professor Dr CBK Mohanty, former AIIMS Bhubaneswar Director and famous neuro specialist Dr Ashok Mohapatra, heart specialist of Satyasai Heart Hospital Dr PK Das, Health department official Rajesh Agarwal and Dr Sanjib Mishra were present along with Jharsuguda CDMO Dr Jagdish Barik.
In the meeting it was decided to sensitise public for control of fatal diseases like heart through regular checkups by health camps every week , creating a patients data base and supplying a chip based card to the patients. For this, necessary assistance will be given to patients by opening two centres in Jharsuguda and Burla.
Heart specialist Dr Das himself will examine the patients in these centres. Ultramodern equipment will be purchased for this purpose. The first heart hospital of the State will be operational in Jharsuguda within a year for which efforts will continue on war footing basis, said Minister Das.
While management task of the hospital has been taken up by Care Hospital Groups, if required operation of patients will be done at big hospitals in the country after necessary heart check ups.
An action plan has already been done for this and shortly this plan will begin through health camps and public will get its benefits, the Minister added.