Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 7: Secretary, Health and Medical Education (H&ME), Bhupinder Kumar, today chaired a meeting at Civil Secretariat to review the functioning of the health sector in the Kashmir division.
During the meeting, various key performance health indicators were discussed threadbare and all the Chief Medical Officers and Medical Superintendents of the Kashmir division were directed to improve the public health delivery system holistically.
Director of Health Services, Kashmir, Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad Rather gave a brief presentation on the achievements and bottlenecks besides highlighting measures towards ensuring better public health delivery.
The Secretary emphasized the need for devising a comprehensive healthcare delivery system wherein all the services such as preventive, diagnostic, and curative services are provided to the needy so that out-of-pocket health expenditure is minimized.
He asked for extending drug dispensing under Health Management Information System/e- Aushadhi up to the sub-center Level besides effectively implementing all the components of the system across health institutions of the UT.
He directed the concerned to ensure that necessary training is imparted to doctors and nurses on palliative and geriatric care from all the districts.
Regarding quality healthcare services, the Secretary directed the officers to identify more such institutions which can apply for National Quality Assurance Standard Certification. He impressed upon them to utilize the approved funds for the infrastructure to the maximum besides ensuring the follow-up of DPRs of NABARD with the concerned District Development Commissioners.
While reviewing the functioning of the National dialysis program, he expressed his dismay over the less number of dialysis sessions being undertaken despite having a good number of machines available and directed for improvement in the functioning of this program for the benefit of patients.
He stressed laying more focus on ABDM and asked Chief Medical Officers to improve its functioning within the next few days. The Secretary further laid stress on increasing the availability of Jan Ashudi drugs at hospitals and stressed increasing the sales of these drugs in government hospitals. He said people must be made aware of the benefits of these affordable and quality medicines.
The meeting was attended by the Director of Health Services Kashmir, Chief Accounts Officer, Deputy Director of Dentistry, and Assistant Director of Health Services Kashmir, besides Nodal Officers of Directorate of Health Services Kashmir including all CMOs & Medical Superintendents of all District Hospitals.
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