Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Friday directed the officers concerned to immediately initiate the process for making the availability of a trauma centre each after a distance of 60 kms all over the state so that timely specialised medical treatment could be provided to road accident victims.
For this, he directed the Health and Family Welfare Department to get conducted the mapping of trauma centres in the state and earmark those locations where the distance between two such centres is more than 60 kms.
Manohar Lal was presiding over the meeting to review the progress of Chief Minister’s announcement of various departments including Health and Family Welfare, Cooperation, Industries and Commerce, Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC), Skill Development and Industrial Training, Power, Forests and Wild Life and Public Health Engineering here.
The Chief Minister also directed the department to prepare a district wise list of number of X-ray machines, MRI machines and other major equipment available in the government hospitals in the state so that these could be made available in those hospitals which do not have this facility. Besides, he also sought the list of de-addiction centres running in the state.
The Chief Minister was informed that Cath labs are operational in four district hospitals in the state and the number of these labs is being further increased to facilitate maximum number of patients. Similarly, facility of MRI machine has been made available in nine district hospitals and of dialysis in 14 hospitals.
It was informed that a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed with Government of India for the setting up of trauma centre at civil hospital, Narnaul. Now, with the signing of MOU, the construction work for the setting of this centre would soon be started.
While reviewing the progress of CM’s announcement of Cooperation Department, the Chief Minister directed to convene the meeting of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) and also prepare an action plan for strengthening cooperative banks in the state and ensure that they run into profits.
The Chief Minister was apprized that with a view to bring more transparency in the working of co-operative societies, a website has been prepared on which detail about each and every society and its members have been uploaded. The website would be launched on the occasion of International Co-operative Day on July 6.
It was also informed that a Milk Chilling Centre would be established in Dabwali , district Sirsa and a Mini Milk Plant at Kalka . At present, six milk chilling plant are operational in the state and all are running in profits.
The Chief Minister directed that the expression of interest be re-invited for the setting up of Industrial Sector at Uchana, Narnaund and Dabwali with low land cost specifications so that maximum industries could come forward to establish their units. He also asked the HSIIDC to establish a corpus fund to be used as a cross subsidy for those setting up their units in the industrial backward areas of the state.
Manohar Lal said that he would soon visit village Kachhwa in district Karnal and Keorak in district Kaithal which are being developed as Mahagram.
The facilities of augmentation of water supply, laying of sewer pipelines and construction of Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs) is to be provided in all 126 villages having population of more than 10,000 under the Mahagram Yojana of the State Government, he added.