To provide better health facilities to people, DK Hospital situated in the state capital will be developed a super specialty hospital, said Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh. The chief minister, at a programme organised on the DK Hospital premises here on Monday flagged off 15 Mahtari Express vehicles and inaugurated 104 Arogya Seva (health services) in the state.
Notably, DK Hospital was originally constructed for Pt Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Medical College Raipur, in the erstwhile Madhya Pradesh. later on a new Hospital building came into existence in the sprawling campus of the JNU Medical College Raipur and the entire facility of DK Hospital was shifted to the new hospital in the Medical College campus which was named after Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar as Dr BR Ambedkar Memorial Hospital Raipur.
After the birth of sate in 2000 the DK Hospital building was refurbished as a secretariat for the new regime. Soon after the completion of new secretariat in Naya Raipur again the temporary old secretariat converted into it’s old shape with same old purpose to treat people. Now being super specialty hospital it will be great respite for the patients of the city and vicinity.
Dr Raman Singh his address said that through the 108 Sanjeevni Express lives of 40,000 persons had been saved. Along with 108 services, wonderful results of mobile units could have been seen in the Bastar and Surguja region of the state. Chhattisgarh was being identified as top state in the country in providing health services to people, he added.
The chief minister said that with 240 Sanjeevni Express and 300 Mahtari Express, a fleet of total 540 ambulances would be available in the state for providing health facilities to the people. With these services, infant and maternal mortality rates could further be reduced in the state. These services would be proved as better and effective for the whole community, he said.
Health minister Amar Agrawal, School Education minister Brijmohan Agrawal, MlA Nandkumar Sahu, principal secretary health MK Raut, director health Dr Kamalpreet Singh and vice-chairman of GVK Krishnan Raju and senior officers of health department were present on the occasion.
Health minister Amar Agrawal said, to provide health facilities in the far-flung areas, different services have been started in Chhattisgarh, after study of all effective measures in the world. Chhattisgarh is the first state in the country, where health security is being given to the people, he claimed.
Under the Mahtari Express, a fleet of 15 ambulances has been stationed in Raipur district, in which three are in medical college, two in district hospital and 10 in primary health centres, the benefit of which could be availed by calling toll-free number 102. The Mahtari services have already been started in Bilaspur, Raigarh, Korea, Sarguja, Bijapur, Dantevada, Kavardha, Mungeli, Balrampur, Jashpur and Rajnandgaon districts. 141 ambulances are available in these districts.