No shortage of doctors, claims Rao Narender

By Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, MAY 3

Haryana Health Minister Rao Narender Singh said that now there will be no shortage of doctors in the state as the recruitment process of 434 posts of doctors is in progress which will be completed by the end of this month.

        He said that the state government had decided to provide free treatment facility to the patients suffering from Hepatitis B. He said that Rs one lakh to Rs. 1.25 lakh would be spent on the treatment of one such patient. In the initial phase, the patients belonging to schedule castes and BPL families would be provided free treatment which would later be extended to other people of the state, he added.

        Rao Narender said that during the tenure of present government, four medical colleges were being  set up in the state out of which Women Medical College set up at Khanpur had even been inaugurated by UPA Chairperson Mrs. Sonia Gandhi. He said that the construction work of Medical Colleges being set up at Karnal, Mewat and Faridabad was in progress. With the commencement of these new medical colleges, a team of new doctors would be prepared and specialists of every disease would be made available for the treatment of the people, he added.

         Health Minister said that on the pattern of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Haryana would also procure medicines through the medium of e-trading. He said that for this the State Government had constituted a Corporation. This process had been more economical. He said through PPP mode, MRI and CT scan facilities would be provided to the people. He said that Haryana was the first state of the country where the patients were being provided with free medicines in the government hospitals.