CM tells govt hospitals to maintain health record of patients

VIJAYAWADA:  Hereafter, integrated health record of every patient should be maintained in every government hospital so as to keep track of the medical and health history of every individual visiting the hospital and extend better treatment, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has said.

At a review meeting here on Tuesday, the CM told the respective officials to appoint knowledge service partners for studying different schemes introduced by the health department, to find out to what extent those schemes had benefited the people.

Majority of new schemes introduced by the health department had been taken up in public-private partnership mode. The field survey of knowledge partners also helps find out to what extent such an arrangement had worked and what sort of results it had yielded. Based on the report, those schemes will be modified accordingly, he said.

“It is not just water, food, climate and hereditary aspects that influence one’s health, but even one’s way of thinking. Hence, there is a need to identify such cases and find ways to prevent them,” he said and wanted the State to set an example in this regard.

He directed the officials to know where the State stands in the world with regard to health index, told them to review the health sector every quarter and make the changes to improve the situation. He also stressed on adopting a comprehensive system for the purpose.

Explaining the objective of ‘Arogya Raksha’, which will bring everyone under the ambit of health insurance for health security, Naidu said that 83 per cent people are utilising ‘NTR Vaidya Seva’ and ‘Arogya Raksha’ was introduced to cover the rest.

By adopting machine learning, doctors can update their knowledge more effectively and extend better medical and health care, he felt and clarified that he will not entertain any excuses in case of mistakes, when it comes to public health. He warned the doctors against perform unnecessary surgeries and underscored that medical treatment to one ailment should not create a fresh health trouble.

Later, the officials told the CM about the treatment being given to kidney victims of Uddanam in Srikakulam, with the help of special mobile teams. Till date, 3,266 were diagnosed and 472 were found to be in need of dialysis. As of today, 97.5 per cent people were tested and the rest will be screened by April 15. Dialysis centres were set up in Palasa, Sompeta and Tekkali, and international experts had been involved in finding the cause of the disease, the officials said.

Responding to this, Naidu asked them to take steps for complete eradication of the disease and announced to shortly constitute an organisation to deal with the issues.

On the occasion, Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas said that they are starting Chief Minister Health Centres from April across the State. Principal Secretary (Health) Poonam Malakondaiah was present.

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