Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 24: Reiterating resolve of the Government to improve health care infrastructure in rural areas, Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand said that the health sector is priority area and work on the road map to extend modern medical facilities to every nook and corner of the State is underway.
“On one hand existing medical institutes are being upgraded to super speciality levels and on the other all out efforts are being made to ensure that required medical care centres are established in remotest possible areas of the State,” he added.
Mr. Tara Chand today chaired a high level meeting called to review the health sector scenario in rural and border belts of Khour area.
Minister of State for Health (Independent Charge) Shabir Ahmad Khan, Commissioner-Secretary, Health and Medical Education M.K. Dwivedi, Director, Health Services, Jammu Dr. Madhu Khullar and other senior officers of Health Department attended the meeting.
Detailed deliberations were done on various infrastructural constraints which the border belt is facing and the measures which need to be taken to address the health care needs of the area.
Underscoring the need to upgrade health infrastructure, the Deputy Chief Minister said that people living in the border and far off areas are poor and it is extremely difficult for them to come to urban health centres, so it is important that the centres operating in these areas are supplemented with required staff and equipment. Staff shortage should be attended at the appropriate level and doctors as well as para medical staff be posted in Primary Health Centres of Dhanga, Pallanwala and other such centres, he added.
He said generator sets for all PHCs are must for providing round the clock service and directed for early purchase of mobile medical unit and two fully equipped ambulances besides one critical care ambulance.
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