Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav advocated super specialty in government hospitals and stressed upon the need of improving the healthcare services in UP. He was speaking at the inauguration ceremony at the Super Specialty block at Balrampur on Tuesday.
He said Samajwadi Government was committed towards improving the health care in Uttar Pradesh making it a bench mark for the other states. He said this will be only be possible by full support of people involved in the health sector including doctor, paramedics, health workers and all other. He commended the health minister Ahmad Hasan for the job well done to improve the services soon after SP came in power. The state of UP that was once the hub of corruption and scan in the previous government is now slowing moving towards progress and development. The
Samajwadi Ambulance Service in an example of this. He said though many projects like 108 ambulance services were initiated at the time of the last government but they failed in completing them. And thus the responsibility was on SP government to give the denizens what they deserve
from a government elected for good.
He said state government soon after coming into power made numerous decisions to improve health care including free medical services to the poor, installation and purchase of state of the art machinery at government hospitals and providing emergency services. He said it only been 15
month and the change is clearly visible.
In time to come several new scheme would be started by the state government including set up of new hospitals, community health centre, and Medical colleges. SP’s tenure left as the state government would only pass in introduction, and launching of new schemes and services
for the denizens, he added.
He said the 108 services was a big hit and keeping in view that 60 per cent of these services are given to the pregnant mothers the state government recently decided to start 102
ambulance service dedicated to provide health care to the expecting mothers.
He highlighted that another step SP took was to revive those medical colleges whose projects were started but could not be complete in BSP’s tenure. He gave the example of medical colleges Kannauj that will start from this academic session and said that State government will
soon start other medical colleges in Jalaun Bundelkhand and in Azamgarh.
Speaking on the super specialty at Balrampur he said the project was initiated by Samajwadi Supremo Mulayam Singh in 2005 and since then the same was pending as the previous government had not taken any interest in the project. Soon after the SP came in power it revived the project and completed the same.
Addressing the gathering Minister Health and family welfare Ahmad Hasan said the super specialty has 100 beds and in centrally air-conditioned. The super specialty block
will have four departments and OPD which has been constructed at the cost of more than Rs 32 crores. The departments include Gaestrology, Urology, Neurology and Nephrology along with OPD.
The doctors have been appointed along with 50 nurses and para-medical staff to look after the patients. While the fourth class employees will be kept through out sourcing
agency. The super specialty will only cater the poor and destitute coming for treatment to Balrampur hospitals from lucknow and neighboring districts. He said they health department was planning to start similar projects in the other government hospitals including Ram Manohar lohiya Hospital and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Civil Hospital. He said the super specialty at Balrampur will provide free health care to the poor and destitute and is fully funded by the state government.
Officials of health department present on the occasion included Principal Secretary Health and Family Welfare, Pravir Kumar, Mission Director NRHM, Amit Gosh, District Magistrate, Anurag Yadav, DG Health, Dr Devendra Srivastava, DG Family Welfare VP Gupta, CMO SNS Yadav, and Director Balrampur Hospital, Dr TP Singh among others.