Visit PHCs once a month: Collector to DHMO

Hyderabad Collector K Nirmala directed the District Medical and Health Department (DM&HO) officials to provide better services to the public. She held a review meeting with Additional Joint Collector B Sanjeevaiah and medical officials at the collectorate on Thursday and enquired about the implementation of immunisation, sterilisation and daily outpatient services in the district.

Nirmala also asked the officials to make use of laptops provided to medical staff and advised them to pick up a Primary Health Centre (PHC) and strive for its all round development. “Officials should visit all PHCs once a month and concentrate more on the services being delivered to the public,” she said. The medical staff informed the collector that 71,849 institution deliveries were conducted in various government hospitals in 2014-15 up to February and 23,857 sterilisation programmes were conducted during the same period.