Hubballi: Soon all taluk hospitals in the State would be provided with the facilities like three-bed ICUs, ventilators and generic medicine stores.
Announcing this after inaugurating a new building of taluk hospital at Kundagol in the district on Sunday, Health and Family Welfare Minister K R Ramesh Kumar said these facilities would be set up at taluk hospitals before January. He also disclosed that steps had been taken to fill up the vacant posts of doctors and nurses in the government hospitals.
“Government hospital doctors have been instructed not to prescribe medicines from outside. All taluk hospitals would have generic drug stores, which would give medicines at 60 percent lesser price. People should not worry about the quality of generic medicines, as they are recognised by the WHO”, the minister said.
Tele-medicine facility
Ramesh Kumar said all the taluk hospitals would be linked with Jayadeva Hospital, Vanivilas Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Hospital, and Kidwai Hospital in Bengaluru, for tele-medicine facility.
A total of 300 vehicles are being purchased to provide ambulance service at a distance of every 10 kms and canteens to provide food at subsidised rates at taluk level would also be opened, he added.
Taluk hospital in Kundgol, which is being upgraded into a 100-bed hospital, would be given new X-ray and ventilator machines, he assured.
MLA C S Shivalli, MLC Shrinivas Mane, Zilla Panchayat President Chaitra Shirur, Taluk Panchayat President Renuka Angadi and others were present.
The minister also inaugurated a primary health centre at Adargunchi village in Hubballi taluk.
