State Health Minister Surindra Singh Negi has instructed chief general manager of Jal Sansthan and director general (medical, health and family welfare) for ensuring the supply of contamination-free potable water to the residents for reducing jaundice cases in the State.
He also instructed to do bleaching chlorination for ensuring contaminated free potable water to the residents. Negi also instructed officials to strictly monitor the jaundice affected areas in Nainital district of Uttarakhand.
He also instructed health officials to take concrete steps to unfold the supply of sub-standard edible products to the state from the neighbouring states. Negi said that strict department action would be surely taken against those officials, who fail to perform their duties or fail to crack the supply of sub-standard edible products.
According to him, the state Government is extending the joining date for the medical officers in order to curb the shortage of doctors in Uttarakhand. He said that the police verification of the newly appointed medical officers are done after they have joined their respective health centres in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand. He said that State health department has been vigorously focusing to appoint newly selected medical officers in the fringe parts of the State.