Large-scale healthcare infrastructure projects and systematic upgradation of services at the grassroots level have played a pivotal role in redefining the healthcare landscape of Jammu & Kashmir, an official said on Tuesday.
The meeting was attended by the Secretary, Health & Medical Education Department; Director, SKIMS; principals of Government Medical Colleges; Director, Coordination; and other senior officers of the department.
Reddy was on a visit to Visakhapatnam and Narsipatnam, and his tour garnered huge excitement among YSRCP supporters who spilled over onto the streets, braving heavy rain.
The decision was taken at the state cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav at the Secretariat on Tuesday.
He made this statement while chairing a review meeting of the Medical Education Department on Saturday.
The court has ordered the state government to fill the seats of Medical colleges following the Reservation Act, 2006, afresh.
This includes the creation and filling of 118 posts across various categories to provide advanced treatment for patients from Hamirpur and nearby districts, including Mandi, Una, Bilaspur, and Kangra.
Moving forward with its commitment to the ‘One District, One Medical College’ (ODOM) initiative, the Uttar Pradesh government has approved the establishment of new medical colleges in Baghpat and Kasganj.
The health department has issued a directive to the principals of all government medical colleges and chief medical officers of health (CMOHs) across districts in the state on 28 January.
The CMS, sole medicines and medical devices procuring wing under the health department, has also asked the MSVPs and CMOHs to withdraw all existing stocks of medicines, including saline supplied by the controversial manufacturing company from wards in state-run teaching and non-teaching hospitals.
