With an aim to improving health care service in UP, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav announced the setting up of CT Scan and MRI machines in different medical colleges of the state.
The CM announced that state-run medical colleges of Allahabad, Meerut, Gorakhpur and Kannauj will be giuven CT Scan machines while an MRI machine will be set up in Kanpur medical college.
Am official spokesman said that Chief Minister had inaugurated an MRI unit at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur last week. There it was brought to his notice about the paucity of hi-tech investigative machines in otehr medical colleges after which the CM ordered the installation of CT Scans and MRIs in other hospitals too.
He said that the SP government from day one has tried to make health services better and was totally committed to improving it further. “To ensure that the poor could get quality treatment, X-Ray and pathological test facilities have been made free of cost at government hospitals. Besides, the patients are getting medicines free," he said.
“The government is aware about paucity of doctors. Therefore, seats in MBBS have been increased in government medical colleges. Asa result, 500 additional doctors will graduate by the end of 2019,” the spokesman said.
He said that new medical colleges have been set up in several districts and the associated hospitals have also started working in full steam. So, the patients are now getting quality treatment. “This could be gauged from the fact that the number of patients in government hospitals has increased in the last one year and a half and also the maternity and infant mortality rate has come down,” he said.
“The government achievement in health sector has even been lauded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This is the government’s perseverance that the Foundation has agreed to work with the UP government,” he said.
The spokesman furtehr said that nine new departments would be set up in KGMU. These are Nephrology, Endocrinology, Oncology, Gastro-enterology, Nuclear medicine, Endocrine surgery, Thoracic surgery, Vascular surgery and Pulmonary and critical care medicine. “This is the first time that nine specialized departments would start functioning in government college in one go,” he said.