J-K govt committed to improve healthcare sector: Omar

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said the state government was making the required efforts to improve healthcare sector so that people are not compelled to go outside Jammu and Kashmir for modern treatment.
"While priority attention is being given to improve and upgrade healthcare facilities in the rural areas, equal thrust is on providing modern health gadgets in the hospitals of tertiary care nature," Omar said inaugurating advanced diagnostic and treatment equipment's and other patient care facilities at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science (SKIMS), Soura here.
Omar said by upgrading rural hospitals and health centres, the huge population living in the villages will not be travelling to towns and cities for the treatment which could be provided to them in their native villages.

"This aspect has been focused and expansion and consolidation of healthcare centres is carried forward simultaneously besides providing specialists and Para-medics in the government hospitals all across the state," he said.
The Centrally sponsored flagship programme in this regard besides various state sponsored schemes are being implemented to achieve the results and enhance treatment facility for the patients in the rural areas, Omar said.
The Chief Minister said installation of latest medical equipment's at SKIMS, Super Speciality Hospital Jammu, District

Hospitals and other hospitals associated with Medical Colleges is a continuous process.
Omar underlined the need for providing best treatment to the patients in the government health institutions and asked the doctors to render the public service with highest degree of responsibility and commitment towards the society.

The equipment's and healthcare facilities which the Chief Minister inaugurated today include Rs 15.11 crore Linear Accelerator, Rs 3.31 crore Multi-Slice CT Scan, Rs 1.86 crore Brachytherapy, Rs 2.16 crore Gama Camera, Rs 3.32 crore CVTS-ICU, Urology Labs, Rs 1.20 crore Neonatology (New NICU) and Rs 1.50 crore lifts in SKIMS Soura.
Facilities of Rs 5.6 crore Lecture Hall Complex and Auditorium and Rs 3.31 core Multi-Slice CT Scan have also been created in the SKIMS Medical College Hospital, Bemina.