Chhattisgarh has reported a significant decline in the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) from 61 per 1000 in year 2006 to 47 in year 2013, officials stated.
The was due to promising results derived out of services such as vaccination programmes carried out across the State, they stated.Apart from this, the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), which was 407 per one lakh deliveries in 1999-2001 has also declined to 230 per one lakh deliveries in year 2012-13.
The Rate of Malnutrition (low weight), which was 47 per cent in year 2005-06, has decreased to 32.51 in year 2014. Under ‘Sanjeevani Sahayta Kosh Yojana’, the patients of BPl category and beneficiary families of Chief Minister Food Grain Assistant Scheme are given financial aid for treatment of 30 critical diseases. This scheme includes provision of maximum financial aid of Rs1.5 lakh. Now the provision of Rs2 lakh for treatment of head injury and that of Rs3 lakh for kidney transplant has been included under the scheme.
During the last 14 years of Chhattisgarh’s formation, health services for common people in Chhattisgarh have widely expanded. Especially the last one decade has been the decade of development for health services in the State.Meanwhile, under the leadership of Chief Minister Raman Singh, various new facilities have been introduced in medical sector and a number of new medical and nursing colleges have been established to encourage new generation for medical education.
The State Government is operating 27 district hospitals, 15 civil hospitals, 29 city civil hospitals, 156 community health centre, 783 primary health centres and 5161 sub-health centres across the State. Moreover, three leprosy home and hospitals, 10 city family welfare centres and polytechnic are also functioning in the State.
In all these Government hospitals, several schemes including ‘Mother-Infant Health Programme’, ‘Janani-Suraksha Yojana’, and Family Welfare Programme along with many Nation Health Programmes are being conducted.Under National Blindness Prevention Programme, as many as 44 thousand 611cataract operations have been performed in Chhattisgarh in year 2013-14 (till December 2014). Eye test of nearly 9.75 lakh school students was done and 14,108 children were distributed free spectacles.
The National leprosy Alleviation Programme also yielded successful results in Chhattisgarh. Under this programme, newly-discovered Multi Drug Treatment (MDT) was used for treatment of leprosy, which resulted in major decline in leprosy prevalence rate in last 11 years from 8.2 to 2.21 per 10 thousand people.
Under ‘Mukhyamantri Bal Hriday Suraksha Scheme’–children (age group 0-15 years) suffering from congenital heart diseases are provided facility of free medical treatment and operation. The scheme was initiated on July 28, 2008. The scheme includes provision of Rs1.30 lakh for general operation, Rs1.50 lakh for critical operations and provision of additional financial aid of Rs50,000 for valve transplant in the contracted hospitals of the State.
Under this scheme conducted by State Government, till date more than 4000 children have undergone successful heart surgeries. Under ‘Mukhyamantri Bal Shravan Yojana’, hearing and speech impaired children are provided facility of cochlear implant operation. Presently, the facility of Cochlear implant is available at Ambedkar Hospital, affiliated to Jawahar lal Nehru Medical College in Raipur. This is the first of its kind scheme, under which Chhattisgarh Government spends amount of Rs6 lakh on operation of beneficiary children belonging to BPl category and amount of Rs4 lakh on operation of such children of APl category. This scheme was started in year 2010. Till date, 104 children have been benefited.
Under Sanjeevani Express Scheme–240 ambulances have been made available in all 27 districts for emergency medical aid. This ‘Dial-108’ free ambulance services are available 24x7.Chief Minister Raman Singh inaugurated Sanjeevani Express Scheme on January 25, 2011. Till date, Sanjeevani Express Ambulances have transported nearly 7 lakh needy patients to nearby hospitals free of cost. This includes 92 per cent patients that were taken to government hospitals on their request, and nearly 8 per cent patients who were taken to private hospitals on demand.
Under ‘Mahtari Express Scheme’, pregnant women and those with infants of age below one year are provided free ambulance service at the time of need.The State Government has launched free ambulance service under this scheme that are available for beneficiaries at Toll-free number 102.The Mahtari Express Ambulance reaches at the doorstep of the callers to take the patients to hospitals and also drops them back to home after treatment on their request. Under the scheme, total 300 Mahatari Express ambulances have been made available across the State.
The Chief Minister had inaugurated this scheme in Bilaspur on August 23, 2013 and in Raipur on September 23, 2013. Nearly 4.27 lakh beneficiaries have availed this scheme across the State.Moreover, the ‘Dial-104’ Arogya Health Advice Service have been started to provide health related advice to the people of the State. The Chief Minister had inaugurated this scheme on September 23,2013 in Raipur.The State Government is also conducting Muktanjali Hearse Service, under which hearses service is provided in government hospitals of all 27 districts of the State on Toll-free number 1099.
Chief Minister Raman Singh commenced this scheme on April 29, 2013 in Raipur and dedicated 60 ‘Muktanjalis’ hears to the general public. Under this scheme, mortal remains of patients, who pass away in hospital, are transported to their home free of cost.
Under Chief Minister Health Insurance Scheme, each family in the State is provided Smart Card-based free treatment facility of upto Rs30,000 per year in registered hospitals of the State. This scheme is being implemented on the lines of National Health Insurance Scheme.
The Chief Minister had inaugurated ‘Chirayu Vaahan Yojana’ this year on the occasion of Independence Day August 15, 2014. Under this scheme, teams of doctors and paramedical staff conduct visits to schools across the State for health checkup of school students. As per the provisions of the scheme, students suffering from various diseased are marked and are provided free medical treatment.In the field of Medical Education, other than Jawahar lal Nehru Allopathic Medical College in Raipur, Government Allopathic Medical Colleges have also been opened in Jagdalpur (Bastar), Raigarh and Rajnandgaon.
In all five government allopathic medical colleges of the State, the number of seats in MBBS first year has been increased to 550. The All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) has also been established in Raipur also.