Chief Minister Raman Singh on Saturday chaired a crucial review meeting of Family Health Welfare and Medical Education department at Naya Raipur to chalk out plan how to contain spread of seasonal diseases during the current summer season.
Singh instructed officials concerned to launch drive across the state to make people aware about seasonal diseases and also advise people to take all the measures to save themselves from heat stroke.
For prevention of dysentery, Malaria, Dengue, Jaundice etc, Public Health Engineering Department, Panchayat Raj Institutions and Urban Development Bodies should work in coordination to ensure water purification, and also cleaning of drainages and public places,’’ Singh asserted at the review meeting.
He opined that special attention should be paid on hygiene of the tanks and pipelines. Singh said that proper arrangements should be made to maintain hygienic environment in all the government hospitals.
Chief Minister directed officials to ensure availability of medicine stock in all the government hospitals for treatment of seasonal diseases. Mitanins and health workers of city, wards and villages should also be equipped with live saving medicines for first aid treatment of such diseases.
A combat team of health department should be formed in every district, so that the team may take immediate necessary action to control the situation as soon as the strike of epidemic is reported from any part of the district.
He further said that instructions to keep all the government hospitals kept open 24x7 have already been issued, and strict compliance to the same should be ensured. In these hospitals, duty of doctors and medical staff should be marked in different shifts on a continuous basis.
In the meeting, Health Minister Ajay Chandrakar, Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, Health Department Secretary Vikassheel and other officials concerned were also present.