Sh. Vij was addressing the gathering as the chief guest at the doctor’s felicitation ceremony organized in Ambala late last evening. He said that very soon on Sunday ECG and X-ray facilities would be provided to every PHC in the state. Haryana is the first state in the country where mapping is being carried out to provide health services. Till date health services have been demand base but he wants that health services should be provided where it is required.
An agency is working for mapping and according to the WHO parameters, information about how many bedded hospitals, doctors, etc. will be collected. Perhaps, Haryana is the first state, there health mapping is being carried out. Similarly, he said that we are working to build a medical college in every district of Haryana and new colleges are being built in six districts.
Vij said that earlier the health budget in Haryana was Rs 1600 crores and today its budget is six times more to Rs 9 thousand 600 crores. He said that CT scan, MRI, ultrasound facilities are being provided in government hospitals. He said that when he became the health minister, he made a principle that only WHO GMP approved medicines would be given in government hospitals and equipment certified by US FDA would be installed. With these two decisions, there has been a lot of improvement in the government sector hospitals and today better medicines are being provided to the patients in the hospitals.
He said that earlier the empanelment was done on the basis of recommendation, but they have decided to empanel NABH certified hospitals. With this decision, today 600 hospitals in Haryana have become NABH certified, and around 500 hospitals are under empanelment which are NABH certified.
Health Minister said that today the private sector has made progress in health services and government services are also being equal to private sector. He said that the private sector is also being given opportunities to grow in Haryana and in this connection a 1500-bedded Maa Amrita Hospital has been built in Faridabad. He said that the world’s first AYUSH University has been set up in Kurukshetra. A 300-bedded Nature Cure and Ayurvedic hospital has been built in the Mata Mansa Devi campus in Panchkula and Yog Aayog was also constituted in Haryana.
During the programme, Health Minister Anil Vij felicitated 55 doctors from different districts of the state who did excellent work. On this occasion Senior Marketing Manager of the organization Mukesh Sharma, Director Health Services Haryana Dr. Kuldeep Singh, Chairman of Adesh Hospital Dr. HS Gill, PMO Dr. Rakesh Sahal, Chairman of Haryana Medical Council Dr. RK Aneja, Bureau Chief Deepak and number of doctors and prominent persons were present.