The Vice President Shri
M. Venkiah Naidu and Union Minister of State for Health Shri Ashvini Kumar
Choubey honoured Madhya Pradesh with “Health Care Excellence Award” in a
inaugural programme of 15th World Rural Health Convention held at New Delhi
today. The state has been conferred with this award for providing low cost
treatment to patients in the entire country. Director of National Health
Mission Shri S. Vishwanathan received the award. The convention will be held
till April 29.
During the last few
years, the state government has made special efforts to provide expensive
medical treatment to patients especially the persons belonging to
economically weaker class. Free Medicine Distribution, Free Medical Check
Ups, Dialysis units, Cancer Chemotherapy, State Illness Assistance Fund,
Mukhyamantri Bal Hridaya Upchar Yojana, Mukhyamantri Bal Shravan Upchaar
Yojana, National Child Health programme,Janni Express, Deendayal Mobile
Hospital, Deendayal 108 Ambulance etc. have played an important role in
getting this award.
Free medicines of
minimum 300 types are being provided in district hospital, whereas minimum
number of medicines in civil hospitals, community health center, primary
health center and sub health center are 131, 107,71 and 24 respectively.
Similarly, free medical checkup facilities of 48, 32 and 28 types are given
in district hospital, civil hospital and community helath center. ECG,
sonography, echocardiography etc. are free in district hospital. Moreover,
CT scan facility has also been started in Bhopal and the same is being
expanded to other 29 districts.
Free dialysis facility
for patients belonging to below poverty line and to patients of above
poverty line at the rate of just Rs. 500 is being provided in all the
district hospitals of the state from January 2016. Call center based Janni
express facility is being provided in all the districts. Deendayal mobile
hospital is functional in tribal dominated and backward districts.
A financial assistance
of up to Rs. 2 lakh is provided for treatment of 21 major diseases under the
State Illness Assistance Fund. An amount of Rs. 612 crore under the 66
thousand 808 cases has been paid from 2003 till now. Under the Mukhyamantri
Bal Hridya Upchar Yojana, a sum of Rs. 73 crore 14 lakh has been spent
towards the heart surgery of 11 thousand 676 children till now. Moreover an
amount of Rs. 53 crore 40 lakh has been incurred for treatment of 1027
children under the Maukhyamantri Bal Shravan Upchar Yojana since its
inception from October-2014. In addition to this, treatment has been
provided to 8 lakh children up to the age of 18 years after the screening of
4 crore 63 lakh children under the National Child Health Mission Programme
from 2013 till today.
Principal Secretary Smt.
Gouri Singh said that we are making constant efforts to provide quality
health services to the people of the state. This award is motivational for
us.
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