Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that Uttar Pradesh had fulfilled the resolve of saving lives as well as livelihood by controlling the biggest pandemic of this century while an intensive campaign against other viruses had started under a special communicable diseases control campaign called Dastak.
He said the one district one medical college scheme was being implemented effectively in the state and under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) had been signed to set up medical colleges in 16 districts under public–private partnership (PPP) model.
“With the establishment of the Medical Device Park, the state government has been successful in achieving the target before the 100 days deadline set by the Medical Education department. This park will make the state self-reliant by increasing the production of medical facilities like surgical instruments and medicine,” the chief minister said.
Yogi Adityanath said that because of teamwork, malaria and kala-azar diseases were on the wane. He said malaria was now observed in less than one per 1,000 population while kala-azar disease was observed in less than one per 10,000 population in 22 identified blocks.
“This is a big achievement for the most populous state like UP,” he said.
The chief minister also said that the government had made 812 new ambulances available in the 108 Ambulance Service, improving the health system. He said advanced life support ambulance service was started from April, 2017 for critical patients and these ambulances were equipped with advanced equipment such as ventilators, medicines and a trained medical technician.
Yogi said the service was being provided free of cost to the residents of the state and so far, 3.48 lakh patients had been served by the ambulance service.