Rural areas to get better medicare facilities

Rural areas to get better medicare facilities Archit Watts
Tribune News Service

Jammu, November 11
Minister for Health and Family Welfare Sham Lal Sharma has reiterated the commitment of the coalition government to upgrade the medicare facilities across the state, particularly in the rural and far-flung areas.

For this purpose, the minister said the government had done a lot of things in the recent past. “Apart from these things, the government will hold medical camps across the state, especially in rural areas so that the people can get better treatment at their doorstep,” said Sham Lal, while interacting with the people after inspecting the week-long free surgical-cum-medical camp at Sub-District Hospital, Jourian, here recently.

He further said the department was already organising health camps, but in a short period the number of camps would get manifold increase.

Appreciating the efforts of the organisers for arranging medical camps in the rural areas, he said all those interested to organise such camps in the remote areas to reach out the poor people, the government would provide them all the logistic support to supplement efforts in providing healthcare to the people.

“At Primary Health Centre level, all the vital diagnostic facilities and services of specialised doctors have been made available round the clock despite a paucity of staff. The government has made earnest effort to create adequate posts of doctors and paramedical staff to cater to the rural services,” added Sham Lal.

He said the state government had already declared that the health and education were the core sectors, which would continue to receive the focused attention.

Seeking people’s support to keep hospitals neat and clean, Sharma said the government’s duty was to create facilities and people had to protect these assets.

He said a sense of responsibility had to be created amongst the people and they must understand that the government property was their own asset and they had to protect it for their own benefits. The panchayat institutions in the rural areas would keep a vigil on the government assets and make sure that the assets were well protected.

Director, Health Services, Jammu, Dr Madhu Khullar, also attended the medical camp.