Times News Network| MukeshRanchi: Chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday directed a comprehensive overhaul of healthcare system in the state, with a focus on strengthening infrastructure, improving emergency response, and ensuring wider access to affordable services.Expressing concern over 108-ambulance services, the CM ordered the establishment of an AI-based control room for real-time monitoring and accountability. He said, “Officials must study app-based aggregator services to model state’s ambulance services to ensure faster patient transport during emergencies.”Chairing a high-level review of the health, medical education and family welfare department at Project Building in presence of health minister Irfan Ansari and senior officials, Hemant stressed on fast tracking the department’s plan to roll out ‘Abua Dawakhanas’, an integrated centre for providing free medicines from multiple systems including allopathy, ayurveda and homeopathy at Ayushman Arogya Mandirs.“There is a need for separate health strategies for rural and urban areas with focused emergency care for diseases like stroke, cardiac ailments and diabetes, and expansion of medical college seats,” Hemant said.He also instructed officials to create a health profile for every citizen, besides directing the department to ensure availability doctors and staff at all healing centres. “Manpower shortage must not affect the services,” Hemant said emphasising on speeding up of recruitment of Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANMs) and General Nursing and Midwifery (GNMs).On blood banks and organ donation, he directed the department to study best models in different states for better adoption. “The department must also study latest technologies to prepare an adoption plan,” the CM said.
