Turning Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s Budget announcement a reality, the Jharkhand Government is ready to unveil dialysis programme for renal patients. Initially the progamme would be started in eight districts of the State that would be expanded across Jharkhand with the help of private players.
The fact came into light on Tuesday in a review meeting of the Health Department in the presence of Chief Minister Raghubar Das.
On the call of the CM to prepare a roadmap for initiating the indispensible medical services at affordable price to kidney patients of the State, Health and Family Welfare Minister Ramchandra Chandravansi said that necessary preparedness is being done.
“We are going to start dialysis service on PPP mode in eight districts next month. All required processes have been completed in this regard,” said the Minister in the review meeting, also attended by Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma, Health Secretary K Vidyasagar and host of other officials.
later talking to The Pioneer, Director Health Services Praveen Chandra named Dhanbad, Bokaro, Jamshedpur, Gumla, Chaibasa, Hazaribagh, Palamu and Dumka as the districts where the service would be in place in the first phase.
The programme announced by the Union Government aims to provide dialysis services to renal patients in all district hospitals across the country. Named as the National Dialysis Service Programme, the budget for 2016-17 has proposed to raise funds for the initiative through public-private partnership and urged private players to step in.
The Chief Minister, besides starting the dialysis service, also mentioned about distribution of medicated mosquito nets and sanitary napkins. “Concrete plan and roadmap should be in place to make sure basic health facilities in Government hospitals. A roadmap for this purpose should be ready in the next three months that would be reviewed again,” said Das.
Discussing other health related issues concerning the Government-run hospitals, the Chief Secretary stressed on fixing responsibilities and conduct resource mapping, finance mapping and housekeeping mapping of such health facilities in the State.
The department also said that the recruitment process is under way to deal with shortage of specialists and medical officers and all the vacant positions would be filled up in near future. The CM was particular about providing all required infrastructure facilities to the doctors in Government hospitals on priority basis so that they can provide best medical attention to the poor coming for treatment.
On the front of expansion of medical facilities in the State further, the CM said that the Centre has approved opening of three medical colleges in Dumka, Palamu and Hazaribagh. “We have got approval from the Centre and process to build the new medical colleges and hospitals would start soon. The department, at the same time, should
appoint 2,000 multi-purpose workers to accomplish different tasks at Government hospitals,” said Das.
In the meeting, it was decided to start admission in the dental college of RIMS from the next session and setting up trauma centres at different places for attending person met with accidents. The Department is planning to open two trauma centres at Bahragora and Nagar Untari in the first phase.
Development Commissioner Amit Khare along with Principal Secretary to the CM Sanjay Kumar and Secretary Sunil Kumar Barnwal were also present in the meeting.