The Department of Health and Family Welfare will form a technical and management support team in the State for ensuring better healthcare facilities to masses.
The Department would soon hire a consultant to form the team, officials stated. Notably, Central public sector undertaking HSCC (India) ltd will also construct a ‘School of Public Health’ for All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Chhattisgarh’s new capital.
The topographical and geotechnical survey work for construction the school will soon be taken up in the new capital, officials stated. Significantly, the Chhattisgarh Government has established a 10-bed hospital in the State Mantralaya premises in Naya Raipur. The hospital offers medical services to the residents of adjacent villages and Chhattisgarh Housing Board (CGHB) Colony.
The facilities such as blood and urine test, minor OT and admitting the patients for treatment are available in the hospital. Appointments under Grade-III and Grade-VI, alongside that of a physician, a medical officer, a lady medical officer, a radiographer, lab technician, pharmacist, staff nurse, driver, ward boy, para-medical staff have been made for the hospital.
Notably Naya Raipur—the fast emerging new capital of Chhattisgarh Government is also turning out to be the ‘Centre of Heart Care’ for patients from all over the country and abroad, officials stated. The free cardiac surgery facility offered by Shree Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital is proving to be a boon for patients. The hospital is dedicated for treatment of congenital heart patients, they stated.
Within just 20 months of its establishment, till August 2014, this hospital had set the record of performing 500 complex yet successful heart surgeries. This included 212 patients from Chhattisgarh, claim officials.
Besides, more than 4,000 heart patients, mostly children, have been provided medical services free of cost.
Hospital officials informed that within the short span of 20 months, 225 open heart surgeries were performed at the hospital last year which mostly includes adult valve replacements and coronary artery bypass grafting.
The hospital offers its free yet high quality services to all without any discrimination of caste, religion, status or nationality. Not only the patients from various States of the country, but the heart patients from neighbouring countries have also availed the free of cost health services provided by the hospital, they stated.
Patients from Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh and also from Bangladesh, Nepal and Nigeria have availed the free medical services of the hospital.
Officers also told that keeping in view the increasing number of congenital heart patient children coming from all over Chhattisgarh and other States of the country, the hospital has been dedicated for providing special child heart care services from February 2014 onwards.
The Hospital now handles a variety of complex Pediatric Cardiac Surgical procedures including Single Ventricle Repairs (Staged Fontan), Arterial Switch Operation, AlCAPA, Senning procedure, Tetrology of Fallot Repair, Ebstein’s repair, Bi-directional Glenn Shunt, TAPVC, Double Aortic Arch ligation, valve repairs etc.
Children with rheumatic valve heart disease, requiring valve repairs are also taken up regularly. As an important step towards widening the scope of heart care for children, the hospital also provides Foetal ECHO Cardiography Services.