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Committed to making Haryana a model state in health services: Vij
He said that people can avail state-of-the-art medical facilities, 162 PHCs would be reconstructed besides construction of civil hospitals in the state and ECG machines will be provided upto PHC level among other facilities
Haryana health minister Anil Vij on Wednesday said that the state government is committed to making Haryana a model state in the country in the field of health services, providing top notch care through state-of-the-art facilities and strengthening the grassroots health system.
Vij made the comments during the foundation laying ceremony of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay State Tuberculosis and Cardio-Respiratory Disease Institute in Ambala City.
He said that people can avail state-of-the-art medical facilities, 162 PHCs would be reconstructed besides construction of civil hospitals in the state and ECG machines will be provided upto PHC level among other facilities.
Vij said that this will not only be a TB hospital, but a TB institute equipped with all the modern facilities, laboratories and other medical services under one roof.
With this, the construction for the ₹56 crore 100-bed hospital for the treatment of TB, chest and heart-related diseases in Ambala City, a first-of-its-kind state facility in North India, will begin soon.
Officials said the hospital will include general chest OPDs, lung cancer clinic, antiretroviral therapy clinic, allergy and immunotherapy clinic, tobacco cessation clinic, pre-anesthesia check-up clinic, sleep clinic, ENT clinic, audiometry clinic, nebulisation room for OPD patients, HIV Counseling centre, dietician’s clinic, mental health and patient education clinic.
The hospital will also have two ICUs, one for TB and another for respiratory diseases (non-TB), 10 beds each.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged to make country TB free by 2025. In Haryana, there are nearly 63,000 patients. The health department is continuously working to get rid of this disease. Social organisations are also working for such patients through Nikshay Mitra,” the minister said.
On the occasion, MLA Aseem Goel took a pledge to help 51 such TB patients through Nikshay Mitra.
Additional chief secretary, health, Dr. G. Anupama and director general of health services, Sonia Trikha, were also present at the event.
