The state health department has issued a letter to all district administrations for demarcation of primary health care centers, community health care centers, sub-health care centers for effective health care so that health care facilities reach to people.
Additional Chief Secretary (health) Arun Kumar Singh has written a letter to all district administrations for demarcation of health care centers in their districts so that responsibilities can be fixed and assigned to staff and doctors working in these health care centers. The Additional Chief Secretary (health) though his letter mentioned that due to absence of demarcation of these health care centers, there is confusion among staff and doctors in discharging their duties which has led to problems in providing better health care facilities to people.
Singh in his letter further mentions that the center and state government runs various welfare and health schemes for people such as mother and child health programme, vaccination, family planning, leprosy eradication programme, rabies control programme and others. For effective management and control of such diseases it is important that there should be creation of regional administrative units.
The Additional Chief Secretary (health) though his letter has mentioned about setting up and assigning health centers which are block and panchayat wise in Bokaro districts. Like Bokaro, such health centers should be set up in other districts of the State. The letter also directs that regional deputy directors and civil surgeons should visit all such health centers at regular intervals and submit a report to headquarters at regular intervals.
The additional chief secretary has also directed that it is responsibility of in-charges of primary health care center, community health care centers, sub-health care center that all health schemes of center and state such as mother and child health programme, vaccination, family planning, leprosy eradication programme, rabies control programme and others runs smoothly in their centers.
The letter also states that it is the duty of staff and doctors working at sub-health care center, primary health center and community health center to provide better treatment to people in their areas at the same time if a person requires better medical attention that they should be referred to district health center for better treatment.