Health Minister K. K. Shylaja has said that all district hospitals in the State will be upgraded as super-specialty hospitals with modern health-care facilities .
Speaking after opening an outpatient ward of the General Hospital here on Saturday, Ms. Shylaja said the policy of the government was not to set up more government hospitals. Instead, it would turn the existing hospitals into centres of excellence .The district hospitals would be upgraded as super-specialty hospitals with all modern facilities such as catheterization laboratory and cardiology department in a time-bound manner.
PHCs into FHCs
“Primary health centres (PHC) will be converted into family health centres (FHC),” Ms. Shylaja said adding that each PHC in the 140 Assembly constituencies in the State would be converted into FHCs in the first phase .
Dialysis units would be set up in all taluk hospitals and vacancy of general medical practitioners in primary health centres in the State would be filled on a war footing.
Inaugurating the road construction work for the proposed Wayanad Medical College project site at Madakkimala in the district, Ms. Shylaja said special consideration would be given to the completion of the project. Though the government had earmarked Rs.3 crore for the initial work of the project , measures would be expedited to allot more funds for the completion of the project at the earliest , the Minister added.
As the dearth of doctors and paramedical staffs was the major challenge being faced by the public health sector , the government had decided to make three -year rural service mandatory for postgraduate medical students, Ms. Shylaja said adding it would be beneficial for a backward district like Wayanad. Caption- Wayanad District Medical officer Ashadevi checking blood pressure of Health Minister K.K. Shylaja after inaugurating an outpatient ward of the General Hospital at Kalpetta in Wayanad district on Saturday. One photograph attached.
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