Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 18: Minister of State for Health, Shabir Ahmad Khan has said that Government is making efforts to promote the Indian System of Medicine in the State and with this objective in mind the construction work on five Indian System Medicine hospitals and 30 dispensaries involving Rs. 101 crore are apace across the State.
This was Stated by the Minister while reviewing the functioning of Indian System of Medicine Department here.
The Minister asked the department to encourage people to avail of this system of treatment. He said the Government has set up ISM health centers at all State and district level hospitals, besides Primary Health Centers, where free of cost medicines and other related facilities have been made available to patients.
Commissioner Secretary, Health and Medical Education, Gazanfar Hussain, Director, ISM, Dr Abdul Kabir and Mission Director NRHM Dr Yashpal Sharma, Director Health Services besides other senior Officers of ISM, Health and other concerned departments attended the meeting.
Khan emphasized on the authorities concerned to ensure proper treatment facilities for people at the ISM Hospitals, adding that it should be strictly ensured that patients get free of cost medicine and other health care facilities in these hospitals.
The Minister also received detailed appraisal of different health care activities from Director ISM and instructed the concerned functionaries to encourage people to avail this choice of treatment.
Meanwhile, reviewing the status of several healthcare schemes under implementation in Kashmir Division, Minister said that Government would bring all districts under the benefit of National Programme of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs), adding that at present such facility is being provided in six districts of the State three each in Kashmir and Jammu Divisions. He said in this regard the Union Health Ministry in principle has agreed to provide funds and a detailed proposal would be mooted soon to the Centre for approval.
Shabir said presently this programme is under implementation in the districts of Kupwara, Kargil and Leh in Kashmir Province, where the patients having ailments of Diabetes, malignancy, cardio-vascular disorders, Cancer and hypertension are getting free treatment facilities with the cent percent financial assistance of Central Government. The Centre is funding the programs at district level to scan the patients with these diseases in the State, he said and added that during last two years Centre has released Rs 5.84 crore, against which Rs 4.08 crore have been incurred on free treatment of different contagious diseases in these districts.
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