Augmentation plan

Recently the Chief Secretary, held a detailed review of infrastructure and services upgradation in the health sector across all districts of Jammu and Kashmir.

He impressed upon the Principals of new GMCs to create an augmentation plan of their own to reduce the referrals from these health institutions. He asked them to dovetail the existing resources for making a comprehensive strategy to enhance the capacity of their medics in coordination with SKIMS and GMCs of Srinagar and Jammu.

He stressed on taking swift measures to augment critical care services to save lives of the patients by making timely interventions. He impressed upon them to receive the requisite handholding from the SKIMS or GMC Jammu/Srinagar with respect to training of staff besides acquiring the small equipments, necessary consumables to deal with such emergencies.

He enquired from each Principal of the medical college about the new specialized courses like MD/MS,DM/MCH, and DNB they had made applications for as per past directions. He made out that such applications needs to be vigorously pursued as per set norms so that the NMC approval is secured in favour of all of them.

As far as the introduction of additional 50 MBBS seats are concerned, he stressed on securing the requisite faculty. He urged them to fill all the entry level posts besides taking steps like hiring of staff on academic arrangement where no feasible candidates are available to fill higher positions of Professors and Associate Professors. Moreover, while taking note of the availability of doctors in remote areas, he asked for encouraging the doctors to join such places by offering them the Hardship Allowance or Non-Practising Allowances. He directed for identifying all such healthcare institutions which are lying in far off areas and deficit in medical staff.