The health minister of Uttarakhand Surendra Singh Negi emphasised on the need for proper publicity of the various health schemes of the State Government. The minister chaired a meeting of senior health department officials on Thursday. He said that the people of the state are not able to get proper benefit of these schemes due to lack of awareness. The Minister made suggestion of health camps in all the blocks of the state. He said that the services of the doctors who are yet to join their duties after transfers should be terminated and new recruitment should be done in their place. Negi also discussed the progress of the plans to recruit doctors from Tamil Nadu and Odisha. He also gave orders to set up a blood bank in Champawat. The Minister said that the efforts should be made to appoint new doctors at the place of their choice. The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary Om Prakash, Secretary Health Bhupendra Kaur Olakh, Director General (DG) health Dr R P Bhatt and other senior officers of health department.