Union Health and Family Welfare Joint Secretary Arun Kumar Panda on Thursday asked all District Programme Managers (DPMs) to upload all information of the patients, who undergo eye surgery under the National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB).
At a review meeting held here, Panda stated, “It is important to make use of MIS software to ensure that information of all patients, who undergo eye surgery under the programme either by NGO or Government hospitals including field review of DPMs will be uploaded in the software, which is available in the NPCB website by the end of June. Otherwise, show-cause notices will be issued against the official.”
MIS will give a transparent and clear picture of what is being done at any given point of time which is an essential requirement.
Issues related to performance in respect of service delivery, funds utilisation, human resource development, procurement of advanced equipments, problems in implementation of the programme, operationalisation of MIS software and infrastructure development were discussed in the day-long meeting.
State Health and Family Welfare Secretary PK Mohapatra said, “Now the State Government has also raised its annual budget in health care sector to around Rs 230 crore. During last year (2013-14) medical equipments worth around Rs 56 crore had been procured for the three Government-run medical colleges.”
Mohapatra urged the Union Joint Secretary to provide insurance coverage for the patients undergoing eye surgery under the Centrally sponsored scheme.
According to the Health Department Joint Director, during 2013-14 the State targeted to conduct eye surgery of 24,82,90 patients but the total achievement is only 10,90,93, which is 44 percent of the target.
Out of the total achievements, 19,524 surgeries conducted by district headquarters hospitals and sub-divisional hospitals, 7,343 in three medical colleges and 82,226 patients undergo surgery by NGOs and other private organisations.