The State Health Minister, Surendra Singh Negi took a review of the proposed screening camps and Mukhyamantri Swasthya Bima Yojna (MSBY) at his Vidhan Sabha office on Wednesday.
He said the State of Uttarakhand is faced with acute shortage of doctors due to which the Government has decided to hold extensive screening health camps in all the 95 blocks of the State from September.
He said that a team consisting of a physician, child specialist, gynecologist, GDMO and paramedic staff would be equipped with diagnostic tools.
Negi said that services of Bombay hospital Haldwani and Akash hospital would be taken for health camps in Kumaon and Garhwal divisions respectively.
On the MSBY, the minister informed that the health cards of 14 lakh beneficiaries have been made till date and the process of preparing remaining 1 lakh cards is currently going on. He informed that the Department has settled 34778 claims amounting of Rs 18.1689 crores under the scheme till July. Negi said that the hospitals like Max, CMI, Fortis and HIHT Jollygrant are added in the list of paneled hospitals under the phase II of MSBY, the health cover of which is increased to Rs 1.75 lakh. The minister claimed that the state government would bear the cost of transporting the patients from the screening camps to the specialized hospitals and for it the service of ambulances of 108 services would be taken. He said that the Department officials have been directed to use all mediums of communication to create awareness about the MSBY so that all eligible families are covered under the universal health insurance scheme.
On dengue, the minister said that he has directed all departments concerned to work in tandem to curb the menace of the disease. He appealed the people to ensure that objects like water coolers are kept decanted so that they not act as breeding ground for the mosquitoes. He claimed that all the government hospitals have adequate quantity of platelets.