Super speciality services in Cardiology, Nephrology, Neurology and Oncology was inaugurated in the centenary building of Keonjhar District Headquarters Hospital by School and Mass Education Badri Narayan Patra in the presence of the local MlAs and the ZP president.
Consultant doctors from Bhubaneswar will attend OPD services in cardiology every Thursday while Cancer specialist will be present on Sundays, Neurology specialist will be available every second and fourth Tuesday and kidney specialist will attend the OPD on 3rd and 4th Saturdays of every month.
The tests required for the patients can be done in the DHH and those unavailable will be done in local private diagnostic centres empanelled by the Health department. Free treatment will be provided to poor people and all expenses shall be incurred from the District Mineral Fund, district Collector N Thirumalla Naik announced in the inaugural meeting.
Provision to add more infrastructure to the DHH, including diagnostic equipment for specialized treatment, an advanced Operation Theatre, engagement of doctors in mining affected areas have been approved to be spent from the DMF fund, he added.
Already about Rs 300 crore has been sanctioned for the Government medical college and infrastructure work is going on in full swing near Kabitra in Keonjhar town. With upgradation of the DHH and functioning of Biju Patnaik Government Medical College in Keonjhar, the town will be soon a hub for medical treatment for Keonjhar and its neighbouring districts, Minister Patra said. Soon mechanized laundry services, mobile pathology services and nutrition services for leper patients are going to be introduced in the district and the sub divisional hospitals, CDMO Kabindra Sahoo informed. Apart from medical services, Minister Patra stressed on health literacy programme on prevention of deceases throughout the district.