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AP govt embarks on strengthening healthcare infrastructure
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A Raju, Hyderabad
May 26 , 2016
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The Andhra Pradesh health department has embarked on strengthening its
healthcare infrastructure in the state. After bifurcation of the state,
most of the healthcare infrastructure is left with Telangana state. To
overcome this deficiency, the state government is planning to revamp its
healthcare infrastructure in all segments.
Among all the
priorities, the health department is planning to overcome the deficiency
of doctors by installing Health ATMs in the state. Apart from this, the
government is also mulling on plans to establish leading hospitals in
Vijayawada and Kurnool on similar lines of Hyderabad’s NIMS and Nilopher
Hospitals.
At present the state is severely lacking a
paediatric hospital to cater to the healthcare needs of just born
children as such of Nilopher in Hyderabad. “Our government is giving
utmost importance to healthcare sector in the state. As a part to
strengthen and reinvent the healthcare infrastructure we are setting up a
Nilopher like hospital in Vijayawada and also have plans to upgrade the
existing Kurnool hospital for treating heart disease. For this, state
government has decided to modernise the existing Kurnool hospital and
install all the necessary infrastructure and equipment needed for the
cardiac surgeries,” informed Kamineni Srinivas, health minister of
Andhra Pradesh.
The state government is also planning to bring
in various other policy changes under the ‘Chandranna Swastha Chikistas’
healthcare initiative in the state. First and foremost, among this is
setting up of health ATMs where the patients will utilise it for
dispensing the medicines free of cost.
The Health ATMs will be
new concept to be implemented for the first time in the state. The
health ATMs will dispense free drugs based on a prescription.
In
India currently the central health ministry has given its consent to
start the health ATMs in 4 states of Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh,
Odisha and Andhra Pradesh on a pilot basis. Once this project becomes
success, these ATMs will overcome the deficiency of doctors in the
state.
“The main problem facing the healthcare sector is lack
of sufficient number of doctors in the government hospitals. As most of
the older doctors are getting retired, the state government is thinking
of increasing the retirement age from present 60 years to 65 years,”
informed a source in the healthcare department.
At present there
are 7,600 MBBS students studying in the state. For them the state is
also planning to give tablets. As there are also various problems faced
with regard to blood banks, the government is also giving special focus
to ensure quality standards are followed in the blood banks in the
state.
Overall the AP government is embarking on reorganising
its healthcare set up with an aim to modernise its infrastructure and at
the same time providing the best of healthcare facilities at affordable
costs with more efficient services in the government hospitals.
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