CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Health Department has earmarked Rs. 380.57crores for implementation of various health services during 2005-2006, the Healh.Minister, Kartar Devi, said here on Tuesday.

Listing the initiatives being taken to improve the health services in both the urban as well as rural areas, she said the focus would be on building public--private partnerships to improve the quality of health services and making optimum utilisation of diagnostic facilities. A public-private partnership

would be launched on a pilot basis under which the poor would be able to consult any doctor on the panel of private doctors short- listed for their respective area and take treatment. This would help in providing primary and specialist health care to the poor living in rural areas and urban slums, she added.

Confidential reports

Mrs.Kartar Devi said that proforma of the annual confidential reports

of medical and para- medical personnel was being modified to make them

performance- based appraisals. These, she said, would be more objective and meaningful.

She added that medical mobile units would be pressed into service in

Mewat area to make health services more easily accessible to the people in this region. Each such mobile unit would be equipped with modern health equipment and consist of a medical officer, lady medical officer and members of the para-medical staff.

Health camps

She said that multi- specialty health camps would be held once in a

month in each community health centre in Mewat area.

She claimed that the Department was fully geared up to meet any eventuality in case of floods. Control rooms had been set up in all districts and adequate quantity of medicines including those required to treat cases of snake bite had been stocked. Mobile medical and para-medical teams had been formed and the staff in health institutions was on duty round-the-clock to meet any eventuality.

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