Speed up work on medical infrastructure across Haryana: Minister to officials

Haryana Health Minister Arti Singh Rao has said the state government is focusing on medical education infrastructure to provide better health facilities to the people of Haryana.

She said the aim was to expand super speciality services in all medical colleges and work towards setting up a critical care block in every government medical college.

She was holding a meeting with officials of the Department of Medical Education and Research here today.

Special trauma care delivery centres would also be developed in medical colleges, so that referrals were reduced.

She directed the officials to prepare standard operating procedures for patient care so that better medical facilities could be made available to patients. She said the shortage of manpower for specialist doctors, and other staff and maintenance of hospital-related services in medical colleges and hospitals would be gradually met.

The government had set a target of opening a medical college in every district. She told officials to ensure that eligible beneficiaries were provided health facilities under the Ayushman Bharat scheme.

It was informed in the meeting that the civil work of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Health Science University at Kutail in Karnal district had been completed on 144 acres. Other works, including medical equipment, were in the final stage and the facility would soon be dedicated to the public.

The university would have a super specialty hospital with 750 beds and would provide tertiary-level healthcare facilities. Work on Pandit Neki Ram Sharma Government Medical College, Bhiwani, and Maharishi Chyavan Government Medical College, Koriyavas, Narnaul, has also been completed 90 per cent.

It was also stated that work on Sant Shiromani Shri Dhanna Bhagat Ji Government Medical College at Haibatpur, Jind; Bhagwan Parshuram Government Medical College at Sapan Kheri, Kaithal; and Shri Guru Teg Bahadur Government Medical College at Panjupur, Yamunanagar, was also going on.

Apart from these, many other colleges were in the pipeline. The minister said the work of all medical colleges should be expedited, so that people could benefit from those projects.

It was also informed in the meeting that nursing colleges were being built in six districts at a cost of Rs 264 crore. These include Nursing College Kherawali, Pinjore in Panchkula district; Nursing College, Khedi Ram Nagar in Kurukshetra district; Nursing College, Dherdu in Kaithal district; Nursing College, Dayalpur in Faridabad district; Nursing College, Arua and Nursing College, Rewari.