Extending a major facility to residents of district a Digital X-Ray machine would be dedicated to public by State Panchayat and Rural Development Minister, Hemchand Yadav at Government hospital Durg on August 15.
The budget of about Rs 1 crore required for this machine has been approved by health department after the initiative of the minister. According to officials very soon ‘e-connecting’ service would also commence in the hospital after which Government district hospital Durg would be the first in state to have such service. Officials said that after the ‘e-connecting’ service is launched, patients would not need to carry their case history with them all the time. All the data and information related to patients would be uploaded in a central server at the hospital which could be accessed through any computer installed in the hospital. The interconnecting working of computers is under process.
Media in charge of Minister Hemchand Yadav informed that after the digital X-ray machine is installed very fine fractures and anomaly in the body would be detected. The digital X-Ray service would be free of cost of BPl card holders and unidentified seriously injured patients.