Recently Chief Secretary, held a meeting of Health & Medical Education (H&ME) Department to take appraisal of the functioning of newly established 500 Bedded Children Hospital.
He stressed on formulating a strategy to increase the seats in DM and that of Senior Residents (SRs) in the hospital to create a pool of experts in all the sub-specialities of Paediatrics in the UT.
The Secretary, H&ME, gave out the current status of services in the hospital with that of the plans to make it state of the art paediatric medical facility in the region.
He revealed that the Department is in the process of preparing indents for the Public Service Commission (JKPSC) to advertise and fill all the vacancies in a time-bound manner. He further revealed that the Department of Paediatric Surgery would be shifted to Bemina Hospital till the end of this month.
It was further divulged that the Children Hospital at present offers care in 16 sub-specialities in addition to General Paediatrics. These includes Paediatric Nephrology, Haematology, Cardiology, Neonatology, Neurology, Radiology, Psychology, Gastroenterology, Orthopedics etc.
The meeting was also apprised about the bed strength in each speciality and the position of faculty available in the hospital. It deliberated upon the issues faced by the hospital in terms of paramedical staff and other human resource, infrastructure requirements.
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