Rajasthan Govt focuses on affordable healthcare, directs implementation of Health schemes
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma reiterated that the state government's top priority is to ensure affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare for the people.
According to the PTI report, he instructed officials to ensure all the budgetary announcements related to the health sector should be completed at a fast pace with an effective action plan to realise the 'Apno Swasth Rajasthan' concept.
Sharma was chairing a review meeting of the Medical and Health Department in the Chief Minister's Office on Tuesday.
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Medical and Health Minister Gajendra Singh Khinvsar was also present in the meeting. He informed the chief minister that the process of recruitment on about 48,000 posts by the Medical and Health Department is going on at mission mode and so far appointment have been made on about 8000 posts.
Chief Minister Sharma said that to provide quality health services in small cities and towns, the state government has decided to build Ayushman Model CHCs across the state, news agency PTI reported.
The chief minister said that free treatment is being provided to the general public under the Chief Minister Ayushman Arogya Yojana.
The government has decided to include pediatric packages under this scheme and rationalise the rates of some packages. He instructed the officials to widely publicise the new provisions added to the scheme.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that in a move to improve healthcare access for patients in remote areas, the state health department is set to launch hemodialysis services at 182 centres, including 11 district hospitals and 102 community health centres, within the next month. This initiative aims to bring much-needed relief to kidney failure patients who previously had to travel long distances for regular dialysis.
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