Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 23: Minister for Health & Medical Education, Bali Bhagat today said that healthcare is the prime concern of the Government, especially in the rural and far-flung areas of the State for which several patient friendly steps have been initiated during the past some months.
While reviewing the performance of health sector in Jammu division at a meeting here today, the Minister called upon the Chief Medical Officers and other ground level functionaries of the department to be pro-active and more accountable towards their job and work hard to provide best possible services to the people. He said accountability, performance and transparency should be the benchmark for each individual and Government will not tolerate any kind of slackness on the part of doctors and paramedics, as one individual’s alertness and timely action can save the precious life.
Maintaining that Government’s responsibility is to ensure best infrastructural and diagnostic facilities in the health institutions, the Minister said that ultimately it is the doctors and paramedics who have to deliver on ground and build the image of the Government by providing best services. It is mandatory on their part to give their hundred percent to provide appropriate succor to the sick, which is always expected from the medical fraternity.
Laying stress on improving the monitoring mechanism and undertaking frequent field visits by the senior functionaries, the Minister said that such steps can be useful in boosting the moral of ground staff and help in plugging the gaps quickly. He also emphasized the need for stepping up awareness campaign to highlight the Government schemes in the rural areas so that people can avail their benefits hassle-free. He also called for mobilizing the ASHA workers and field staff for helping the pregnant ladies for ensuring institutional deliveries and addressing the family planning issues in the rural areas.
The Minister also reviewed the status of various on-going infrastructural projects in Jammu division and called for their speedy completion and timely submission of Utilization Certificates. The issues like availability of ambulances, medicines, equipment, curbing pilferage of Government medicines from the hospitals, random check of prescriptions to avoid unnecessary writing of medicines by doctors, steps to meet the challenges like dengue and other dreaded diseases, implementation of immunization programme, orientation programme for the doctors and paramedics, implementation of free drug policy in Government hospitals were prominently discussed. The Minister directed the concerned to focus on these areas for their effective implementation.
Secretary, Health & Medical Education, Dr. Mandeep K. Bhandari gave resume of the activities of various wings of the Health Department in Jammu division and highlighted the achievements under Centrally Sponsored schemes.
Among those present in the meeting included Managing Director, J&K Medical Supplies Corporation, Dr. Yashpal Sharma, Director Family Welfare, Dr. Baldev Sharma, Mission Director, NHM, Dr. Mohan Singh, Project Director, J&K AIDS Control Society, Dr. Sameer Mattoo, Director Health Services, Jammu, Dr. Gurjeet Singh, Controller, Drugs & Food Control Organization, Lotika Khajuria, Joint Director Planning, Madan Lal, CMOs and other senior functionaries of allied wings of the Health Department.
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