UDAIPUR, December 18 (TIWN): PWD & Health Minister Badal Chowdhury, Rural Development Minister Naresh Jamatia, DWS Minister Ratan Bhowmik today visited Gomati District Hospital at Tepania and Tripura Sundari Sub Divisional Hospital at Udaipur. Ministers were accompanied by Director of Health Services Dr Satya Ranjan DebBarma and Director of Health and Family Welfare Department Dr Kanu Lal Bhowmik. This visit is said to be crucial especially when the opposition parties and a group of businessmen and common people have been agitating for the last six months over the shifting of equipments from Tripura Sundari Hospital to Gomati District Hospital blaming state govt playing a negative role simply to cripple the Tripura Sundari Hospital.Badal Chowdhury expressed his anger regarding the missing Rs. 1.20 crore money sanctioned for the upgradation of Kakraban Hospital.

Nearly one and half years back Rs 1.20 crore was sanctioned for this purpose but now the entire money is meeting. Badal Chowdhury was seen to asking the officials ," What is this? Where has the money gone? 

At around 11am all the three ministers and two Directors visited the Tripura Sundari Sub Divisional Hospital and from there the team went to visit the Gomati District Hospital at Tepania. The ministers visited these hospitals to oversee the existing facilities and services that are now being offered to the patients. Officially it has been said that this visit was made purely with a purpose of improving the existing health care services . It is to be mentioned here that on 19th June 2012 Gomati District Hospital was inaugurated and since then the controversy surrounding the shifting of  OPDs and equipments have not ended.

         After this the high level team met in a four hours long crucial meeting in the Conference Room of the Gomati Zila Parishad 's Office. Apart from the three ministers and Directors the meeting was also attended by DM Gomati, all SDMs of the Gomati District, CDPOs, CMO Gomati, SDMOs of all the three subdivisions under Gomati district, MOICs of all PHCs and Health officials as well as DWS and R D officials. The meeting ended at 4.15pm. After the meeting Minister for Health and Family Welfare and PWD Departments Badal Chowdhury met with the press in the Conference Room No 2 of the Gomati Zila Parishad.

       Speaking to the press Badal Chowdhury said," In today's meeting we have discussed to improve the health services not only in the district hospital but also in the Tripura Sundari Hospital. And in this regard state govt has decided that Udaipur will be the first Sub Division after Agartala where a generic medicine services will start. And a generic medicine store will be opened in the Gomati District Hospital. But it will not happen over night . It will take time."

       Badal Chowdhury agreed that there is an lack of adequate specialist doctors. He said," We believe that in the District Hospital and in Tripura Sundari Hospital there is shortage of specialist doctors in all department. But the two medical colleges AGMC and B R Ambedkar too are suffering from it. Hopefully in the next two years time we will be in a position to post specialist doctors in all sub divisional and district hospital."

      Reacting to the controversy of the shifting of units and equipments from Tripura Sundari Hospital the Minister said," As far as the services in Gomati District hospital we are quite happy. But a section of people are now busy in creating controversy. I would like to clarify that for long the Tripura Sundari Hospital was a district hospital. Gradually some services were built up there as per the requirement of a district hospital. And the equipments too were installed . But now as the district hospital has been shifted and naturally only those equipments needed for district hospital have been  shifted and there is no question of stopping the services in Tripura Sundari Hospital."  

       Meanwhile during the meeting Health Minister Badal Chowdhury expressed his anger regarding the missing of the money sanctioned for the upgradation of Kakraban Hospital. Nearly one and half years back Rs 1.20 crore was sanctioned for this purpose but now the entire money is meeting. Badal Chowdhury was seen to asking the officials ," What is this? Where has the money gone? Ask R D Officials."  Other important matters that were discussed in the meeting are:-

1) Treatment of communicable diseases will be dine in district hospital and the patients suffering from non-communicable diseases will be treated in Tripura Sundari and other Sub Divisional Hospitals.

2) The unused rooms in Tripura Sundari Hospital will now be used for Auyush- the Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital

3) MLAs of the respective areas of the PHCs and Sub Centres having no ambulances should take initiative to donate ambulances from their MLA funds

4) Four committees -one each for District and Sub Divisional Hospital with CMO as the Chairman cum Convenor and two more committees for for the PHCs and Sub Centres were constituted. After examinning the existing conditions in all hospitals, PHCs and sub centres  including the matter of DDT spray situation these committees will submit their report by 31st December

5) Birth ratio of female babies has to be improved and at present death rates of pregnant mothers during child birth is 26 per 1000 birth but this has to be further reduced