Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 25: Advisor to the Governor, K Vijay Kumar has asked the medicos and the paramedical staff to ensure punctuality at their places of posting so as to provide better healthcare facilities to the people visiting the State-run health institutions. He said the doctors and other staff who are punctual in their duties need to be appreciated for their services to the society.
The Advisor said this while reviewing the functioning of the Health and Medical Education Department here today.
The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary Health and Medical Education Dr Pawan Kotwal, Director General Health Services Kashmir Dr Saleem-ur-Rehman, Commissioner Food Safety, Principal GMC Srinagar, Director Finance (H&ME), MD JK Medical Supplies Corporation, Director ISM J&K, Drug Controller, Mission Director National Health Mission, Joint Director Planning and other senior officers of the department.
Addressing the meeting, the Advisor asked the senior officers of the department to conduct regular field visits for effective supervision and monitoring of services.
He stressed for better-coordinated efforts for further improvement in health sector besides bringing in an effective monitoring mechanism to further improve the efficiency in the department.
Earlier, Principal Secretary (H&ME) Dr Pawan Kotwal gave a detailed power point presentation about the working and performance of the department in rendering health services to the people of the State.
The meeting took a detailed review of expenditure incurred on centrally sponsored schemes and Prime Minister’s Development Package for the year 2017-18.
Status of various developmental projects under PMDP including the establishment of AIIMS at Vijaypur in Jammu and Awantipura in Kashmir and establishment of five new Medical Colleges and other mega projects was also discussed.
During the meeting, Drug Controller informed that various steps have been taken to strengthen the network of Food Testing Laboratories in the State.
The Advisor asked the Drug & Food Controller Organization to strictly enforce the laws so that drugs available in the market are properly tested and spurious/sub-standard drugs are banned from its use.
Regarding the performance under National Health Mission (NHM), the Advisor was briefed about the implementation of various programs under the mission in the state and its efforts to reduce the Maternal Mortality Ratio, Infant Mortality Rate and the Total Fertility Rate.
While reviewing the working of JK Medical Supplies Corporation, the Advisor asked the Corporation to effectively maintain the quality of the drugs and conduct regular testing to check the sub-standard or spurious drugs while procuring the same from the manufacturing companies.
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