The state government has improved health facilities across the state in the past ten years and has opened 1258 sub-health centres, 203 primary health centres and 34 community health centres in the rural pockets. The government has also succeeded in checking infant mortality rate that has reduced from 79 per thousand in the year 2000 to 54 per thousand at present. Similarly, the maternal mortality rate has reduced from 470 per lakh (year 2000) to 335 per lakh at present.
The Health and Family Welfare Minister Amar Agrawal on Monday informed that the government had consistently improved the health infrastructure of the state since 2000.
According to national standards, primary health centre should be opened for every 30000 population in the rural areas and sub-health centres for every 5000 population. Agrawal said Chhattisgarh had fulfilled all the national norms and currently it had 5076 sub-health centres and 714 primary health centres.
The number of community health centres has also reached to 148 owing to special target set by the government, informed Agrawal.
When Chhattisgarh came into existence, the state had only ten district hospitals but now such hospitals have been opened in all the districts, he said.
In addition, the state has improved its health education system by increasing number of medical, dental, ayurvedic and homeopathic colleges, he said. Presently, there are three medical colleges in Raipur, Bilaspur and Jagdalpur. The fourth medical college would soon be opened in Raigarh. Besides, the state has two ayurvedic colleges, six dental colleges, three homeopathic colleges and one Unani college and naturopathic college each.
The minister informed that the government was also committed to fill the vacant posts of doctors and nurses in the hospitals. “The number of expert doctors has increased from 98 to 253 in the past ten years. Similarly, as against 947 medical officers in the year 2000, there are 1184 at present. Besides 30 nursing colleges are being operated across the state,” he said.
There has also been marked rise in multi-purpose health workers (females - from 6 to 40 and males - from 3 to 36) and general nursing training centres (from 4 to 17) in past one decade.
The health facilities in Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar hospital in the state capital has also been increased and now it is equipped with modern machines like - CT scan, Colour Doppler, ventilator, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), endoscopic surgery unit, cobalt machine, linear particle accelerator and brachytherapy to treat cancer patients, paediatrics neonatal care unit, catheterisation laboratory (cath lab) for heart patients, haemodialysis for kidney patients, burn unit and trauma unit, the minister said. The hospital also has facility of blood bank, he added.
The government has also commenced various schemes (including centrally-sponsored schemes) pertaining to public health like Mukhyamantri Bal Hriday Yojna, Mukhyamantri Bal Shravan Yojna, Sanjeevni Kosh Rashtriya, Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna and Sanjeevni 108 Express.
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