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Haryana
By Our Special Correspondent
The Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, made the announcements while inaugurating a health camp at Idri village in Nuh sub-division of Gurgaon district today. He said that senior citizens were being provided ophthalmic services and spectacles free of cost. The Government had also decided to provide 225 medicines free of cost to the patients. Haryana is the first State to provide such health services in the country, he claimed. While distributing spectacles among 200 senior citizens at the camp, he directed the health authorities that serious patients should be provided free medical aid in Delhi and at other places. He asserted that his regime was giving priority to health services as a result of which the annual budget for health sector had been increased from merely Rs. 66 lakhs in 1966 to Rs. 407 crores at present. He urged the people to maintain hygiene as it would help in checking the spread of disease. The sanitation campaign launched in Mewat area on Gandhi Jayanti had helped in making the area free from disease. Each gram panchayat was given Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 15,000 for ensuring sanitation, he added. Mr.Chautala announced that a drinking water supply scheme had been formulated for implementation in Mewat area. The irrigation facilities would also be improved as the government was working on the Mewat Canal scheme. Industry would be promoted in the area to generate employment opportunities for the youth. The Minister of State for Health, M.L. Ranga, said that 267 health camps had been organised in the State. He clarified that the cases of fever being reported these days were not dengue fever and samples had been sent to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for investigation. The leave of staff of the health department had been cancelled and the patients were provided free medical aid.
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