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CM appoints doctors to serve rural population

-The Times of India

 

Health services in the state are likely to get a new fillip with 388 regular doctors being appointed and posted in rural parts of the state. Appointment letters were handed over to the doctors by chief minister Arjun Munda at a function organized by state health department and Jharkhand Rural Health Mission (JRHMS) at the Reproductive and Child Health Centre, Namkum on Thursday.

Handing over the appointment letters to the doctors, Munda said that the government has decided to post the doctors in rural areas to address the issue of shortage of health professionals in these areas. "People living in the urban areas have access to government and private health facilities but in the rural areas, people are dependent on government hospitals alone and absence of doctors make life miserable for them," he said. Admitting that most of the centrally-sponsored health schemes and initiatives taken by the state government fail to yield results, he said, that once the vacant positions are filled up the onus lies on the health department to ensure that the newly-appointed doctors serve the rural population.

During the function, Munda launched a Sahiya website and issued identity cards to Sahiya Sathi. "Sahiya sathi would obtain an honorarium of Rs 1500 per month and in turn guide and train the sahiyas elected by the gram sabha," said NRHM state mission director Aradhna Patnaik.

Munda released a quarterly health report of the JRHMS "Hamaar Swasthya' and another guidebook for the members of panchayati raj institution to help them participate in the health schemes.

In yet another programme, organized at the same venue, Munda gave away awards to 48 sahiyas, two each from every district, five assistant nurses and midwives and six surgeons for their commendable contribution in implementing NRHM policies.

Institute of the public health convention centre and hostel for JRHMS were also inaugurated by Munda. The institute would train medical officers, grade-A nurses and other health professionals from time to time.

"The hostel has 42 rooms where the trainees can put up during the course of their training," Patnaik said.