STATE TIMES NEWS
RAMBAN: A high level meeting of the health officers aimed for reviewing the delivery of health services and progress on health infrastructure works going on in the district was today convened at District Headquarters Ramban under the chairmanship of District Development Commissioner Farooq Shah Bukhari.
The meeting was attended by CPO, CMO Ramban, PO ICDS, Superintendent District Hospital, Incharge ISM and BMOs of all the Blocks of the district.
It was given out in the meeting that there are 23 health institutions which consist of One District Hospital, three CHCs, nine PHCs and ten ADs. In addition there are 23 Rogi Kalyan Samities (RKS) in the district. In the health sector 405 major and 5,490 minor surgeries were performed in the district upto November 2014.
Under JSY as many as 532 mothers and 483 ASHAs were paid incentives upto November 2014. A total of 567 institutional deliveries were recorded during this year upto November 2014. CMO Ramban told that the number of home deliveries has considerably decreased since the previous year and he attributed this to the awareness created among the people in coordination with ASHAs and the administration.
Similarly under JSSK, 567 pregnant women were given medicines and consumables which includes 567 pregnant women having normal delivery in the Govt health institutions. As many as 1,138 pregnant women were provided free diagonistics, 417 were provided diet during delivery period in the health institutions, 503 were given free transport facilityupto November 2014 in the district.
While reviewing the progress of works going on at various health institutions at Chapnari, Chamalwas, Checknarwah, Gagarnag, Jhatgali, Chabba, Gagra, Mhakund, Sangaldhan, Residential Quarters at Batote and Banihal, Tranna, Khari, Batroo and Nowgam, DDC impressed upon all the concerned BMOs that the works on these institutions should complete by the end of July 2015.
While concluding DDC impressed upon all the officers to pay attention towards the health of the school going children and keep a close watch upon their health and nutrition. He directed the concerned officers that there is a need of paying more coordination among the officers towards the completion of works on these health institutions and ensure that these institutions become the models of sanitation in the whole district. He urged the officers to put their best efforts in dealing the sick people besides completing all the ongoing works of this important sector on the targeted dates so that delivery of best services to the people especially the poor can be ensured.