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Ensure institutional deliveries: Collector
The District Collector, A Murali, has directed the medical officers to take measures towards offering quality health services at all primary health centres and government hospitals in the district.
​Bhupalpalli: The District Collector, A Murali, has directed the medical officers to take measures towards offering quality health services at all primary health centres and government hospitals in the district.
He wanted the officials to ensure institutional deliveries for the wellbeing of mother and the child. To this effect all required arrangements at primary health centres (PHCs) has to be made.
If the PHCs were in urgent need of any equipment and others, it should be brought to the notice of the district administration to get the issue addressed.
There are 25 health centres in the district, the main source of health care for the rural masses hence special care has to be taken in meeting the needs of the public.
The doctors should be available to the people at the health centres and earn public trust, Collector Murali suggested.
He held a meeting with medical officers here on Friday to review the functioning of the PHCs. Besides offering medical services, the doctors should also educate the masses on health related issues to build a healthy society.
Special focus has to be laid on the health of women, children and elderly persons along with immunisation.
Speedy treatment should be provided in the case of malaria and dengue cases in case of emergency the patients should be referred to area hospitals without any delay, the Collector said.
The district immunisation officer Dr Harish Raj, district surveillance officer Dr Kiran Kumar, senior public health officer Dr Madhusudhan, Bhupalpalli area hospital superintendent Dr Ravi Kishore, district statistical officer Prasanna Kumar and others were present.
Not Shifting ITDA
In a statement on Friday, the Collector, Murali, said there were no proposals to shift Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) office located at Eturunagaram to any other place.
He dismissed the news reports on shifting of the ITDA as false. The ITDA would continue at Eturunagaram and hence the tribals need not worry, he added.
