Health and Family Welfare Minister Amar Agrawal on Friday instructed all chief medical and health officers (CMHO) to ensure distribution of generic medicines to patients in all Government hospitals.
Display boards showing availability of generic medicines should be placed in all hospitals. It should also be ensured that all doctors prescribe generic medicines to patients. Availability of generic medicines should widely be publicised, he added. The Health Minister while holding a meeting of all the CMHOs of the State at the directorate of health, also reviewed progress of departmental schemes. In the meeting, Agrawal instructed the officers concerned to complete process to fill up all the vacant posts of Class III and IV employees by March 31, 2014.
Senior officers, including Principal Secretary Health and Family Welfare Department MK Raut, Commissioner, Health, Pratap Singh, Director, Health Services Dr Kamalpreet Singh and Director, National Rural Health Mission RPS Tyagi were present at the meeting. The Health Minister instructed to promote institutional delivery. He said that it was the intention of the State Government that cent per cent delivery should be ensured to hospitals, so that the maternal and child mortality rate could be reduced. For that, all CMHOs would take proper efforts, he added.
Agrawal said that before posting new ANMs at primary and sub health centres, they should be imparted training at district hospital, so that they could efficiently conducted delivery at sub health centres. While reviewing the operation of the 102 Mahtari Express, launched for transporting expectant mothers and infants to hospitals for their health examination, he said that if there any further demand for ambulance for Mahtari Express, proposal should be made for that.
While collecting information about the health centres, the minister said that construction of those buildings has not yet been started, that should be done through the Chhattisgarh State Medical Corporation. He also reviewed the operation of 108 Sanjeevni Express, Muktanjali Express and 104 Chikitsa Paramarsh Seva. Agrawal instructed to dispose of cases of promotion and time-scale of class III and IV employees in time and on priority. He said that mobile should be distribution to all ANMs under the e-Mahtari scheme soon.