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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 40000 sahiyas to get cycles

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published Published on Sep 14, 2011   modified Modified on Sep 14, 2011

-The Telegraph

 

The Arjun Munda government today unveiled a host of health initiatives for the benefit of villagers, especially expecting mothers and schoolchildren, and flagged off a number of specialised mobile clinics, indicating its seriousness about improving medical standards across the length and breath of Jharkhand.

Among the schemes launched by the chief minister at a state health department organised function at Haribansh Tana Bhagat Stadium were a school health programme that envisages monthly medical camps with free medicines and a host of measures to strengthen the system of sahiyas, or health workers, in villages.

One blood donation van, equipped with refrigerators, was handed over to the state by National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) to enable health workers to conduct blood donation camps.

Three blood transportation vans, also equipped with refrigerators, will be distributed among the three medical colleges — Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital, Jamshedpur, and Patliputra Medical College and Hospital, Dhanbad.

The medical colleges are to use the vans to transport blood from one blood bank to another or from the donation van to a blood bank.

In addition to these, five AIDS awareness vans were flagged off to be used in districts of Sahebganj, Dumka, Pakur, West Singhbhum, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Gumla, Simdega, Latehar and Lohardaga.

Under the school health programme, camps will be held at least once a month jointly by the health, human resources and social welfare departments to monitor children’s health parameters and provide medicines free of cost.

Sahiyas, the backbone of rural health initiatives, will now be given more bicycles — all 40,964 of them — and more test kits, including ones to monitor diabetes among expecting mothers.

They will also get regulation green saris.

Munda said he hoped the government’s initiatives would ultimately touch the lives of all 3.29 crore residents of Jharkhand.

“We have created at least one sahiya for each of the 32,000 villages of Jharkhand. We now want to strengthen our trained manpower in the health sector. I have asked the health department to come up with a policy under which we can recruit doctors through interviews, without going through the time-taking process of written examinations,” the chief minister told a gathering of a large number of village health workers.

Health minister Hemlal Murmu noted that the sahiyas were the backbone of the state government’s health services.

“If they are strengthened, the state health department’s performance will naturally go up,” he added.

The Telegraph, 14 September, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110914/jsp/frontpage/story_14504064.jsp


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