ALAPPUZHA: The new District Medical Officer N.N. Murali has said the Health Department is planning to improve the functioning of Government hospitals in the district and make them free of corruption.

Addressing presspersons here on Thursday, Dr. Murali said the department would also implement various disease-prevention programmes with the help of the district panchayat and other local bodies. Dr. Murali said he had requested the top authorities to shift the DMO office to the vacated buildings of the Alappuzha Medical College Hospital in the town.

The present DMO office lacked space for holding conferences and parking vehicles.

He said steps were on to shift the Public Health Laboratory adjoining the DMO office to the building that housed the Nephrology Department of the MCH.

He noted that many of the hi-tech equipment lying unused in the laboratory at present could be utilised when the shifting was completed.

He said steps were also being taken to shift the Alappuzha District Hospital to the vacated MCH building. The district hospital would be upgraded as a general hospital after the shifting.

The DMO said the district panchayat was implementing a rural scheme aimed at improving the health care system and preventing outbreak of epidemics.

Four persons would be trained in every ward in local bodies in the district to act as health workers. They would be given medical kits and would be provided a small remuneration for their work. The project was estimated to cost Rs.1 crore, he said.

Dr. Murali said a free cancer detection project would be launched in the district on February 20 at Muhamma Community Health Centre. The project would cover all panchayats in the district, he added.

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