Children below 12 years, women to benefit
For the first time in the State, exclusive 500-bed hospitals for rural children and women will come up at Salem and Madurai at a cost of Rs. 80 crore each.
Under the National Rural Health Mission, the State Health Society has been sanctioned Rs. 160 crore for establishing the state-of-art hospitals at Salem and Madurai. Children below the age of 12 and women from rural areas will be provided treatment in the hospital that has both outpatient and inpatient wards.
The new hospital at Salem is to come up on the campus of the Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital. The construction area has been identified and work is expected to be taken up in three months and completed by 2013-end.
As many as 200 doctors, 100 staff nurses, 50 technicians, 100 workers and 50 maintenance staff will be recruited.
R. Vallinayagam, Dean of the hospital told The Hindu, that a team from the State Health Society visited Rajiv Gandhi Government Women and Children Hospital in Puducherry, where a similar project was under way. It decided to replicate it.
Keywords: hospitals, National Rural Health Mission, Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital
It is welcome move on the part of Govt. But it is time that the Government adapted the model of National Health Service in U K and improved the standards in health care delivery at its Hospitals U K with a population of 51 million has been able to provide to almost all its citizens cashless quality service at the point of care. All modern up to date management systems. are used in running the hospitals efficiently and effectively in UK> The result is that vast majority of its population are satisfied with the system.Similar situation prevails in Malaysia, Australia and Canada. India is perhaps the only country besides USA where basic quality healh care services are abandoned by the elected Government and private players are allowed to provide curative services for selected diseases at a cost only the most affluent can afford.Adding insult to injury so called market forces with emphasis on profitability lead to rampent advertisement and unethical practices in the delivery of healh care
I believe that I haven't got somwthing right here. It's said that this hopital is exclusively for rural women, but the hospital is to be in Salem as a part of the medical college campus where already there is a well establishe hospital is running for decades. Someone can correct me if I am wrong, i thought that salem is a metro city and corporation. It's not a village. I think this politicians should start thinking well befor implementing any projects. We citizens also needs to be blamed, simply because we vote after taking bribe to useless and ffolish people to come to power.
The moves are to nbe appreciatd. But extension of medical and health
facilities to children in the rural areas would be better served if
modern hosopitals even of smaller sizes and faciltieis are provided at
the taluk headquarters to which place the rural people could rush to
in times of emergency. The greater the dispersal of the ehalth
faciltieis with a view to redching ass many people in the rural areasa
as posible would hav eto be attempted. Recently, the govt. decided to
start primary health centres in 35 crnes with a poppulation of l lakh
and less. If the populationc rietreion ahd been reducede and primary
ehalth centreas are propvided nin smaller centres with a ppulation of
, to start with 6,0-0-0 would be desirable.
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