BHUBANESWAR: With growing concern over deteriorating infrastructure and amenities in the health institutions, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday directed the Government departments to conduct a joint assessment of prevailing conditions in all hospitals and health centres. The officials should make a comprehensive assessment of the conditions from building, sanitation, patient care facilities, amenities to uninterrupted electricity supply and complete the necessary repair and installation works by the end of September. The functioning of the hospitals and utilisation of machinery and equipment provided to them should also be constantly assessed through surprise checks. Patnaik, who reviewed the National Rural Health Mission programme implementation in the State here on Thursday, set priority to improving the sanitation and cleanliness in the hospitals and health centres on a war footing along with provisioning of proper uninterrupted power supply. In the first phase, about 13 district headquarters hospitals have been selected for provisioning of dedicated power supply. The supply should also be extended to 22 sub-divisional hospitals, he directed. He stressed on preparing comprehensive route chart of the mobile health units deployed in the remote and inaccessible pockets of the State. More and more people should be covered by the mobile units and to improve their coverage, their routes, timing and date schedules should be aggressively publicised to inform the public. People should also be made aware of the free medicines and facilities provided at the different hospitals. While deciding to hold two reviews of NRHM implementation and expenditure of funds every year, the Chief Minister also emphasised on accelerating the process of recruiting staff nurses and anganwadi workers. More number of ASHA workers would also be recruited in the tribal-dominated districts. The meeting was attended by Health Minister Prasanna Acharya and Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik.
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