CM launches ‘Chandranna Sanchara Chikitsa’

‘275 mobile medical units will serve as primary health care centres in villages’

Welfare agenda:Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu launching the ‘Chandranna sanchara chikitsa’, in Vijayawada on Wednesday. —PHOTO: V. RAJU

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu launched ‘Chandranna Sanchara Chikitsa’, a mobile medical unit, supply of rotavirus vaccine, and injectable polio vaccine programme here on Wednesday coinciding with his birthday.

Mr. Naidu also inaugurated a CT scan facility provided by Krsnaa Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd at Tekkali through a remote from here.

He said that 275 mobile medical units would serve as primary health care centres in villages. They would conduct fixed day clinics twice in a month, and these clinics would maintain the electronic medical record of every beneficiary, he added.

The Chief Minister said that medical care was neglected in the State during the previous government. The urban health centres had become defunct. Government hospitals had no proper equipment and infrastructure. Even those working in government hospitals preferred going to a private hospital for treatment. The government was taking a series of measures to streamline the medical and health care in the State, he said, adding that “maintenance, equipment, tests are being outsourced.”

‘Prevention is

better than cure’

Mr. Naidu said that 250 medical services were brought under NTR Vaidya Seva, the health insurance scheme. The limit was also increased to Rs.1.25 lakh from Rs. 1 lakh for the benefit of the poor. The government believed in prevention than cure. People should also follow this philosophy and change their lifestyles. “Healthy diet, exercise, and yoga are a few measures that keep you fit and hale and healthy,” he said.

Medical and Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas said that the government was taking steps to construct 12 150-bed hospitals in the State besides recruiting 1,400 doctors and 1,000 para medical staff shortly. The government was focusing on bringing down the infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate in the State.

It was planning to provide tabs to medical students in the State. The students can connect to digital library and access information, the Chief Minister said.

Ministers Devineni Umamaheswara Rao and Kollu Ravindra, Women Commission Chairperson Nannapaneni Rajakumari, and Vijayawada East MLA Gadde Ramamohan Rao were present.