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SRINAGAR, Jun 14: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, had a detailed review of the critical infrastructure and services being provided across the associated hospitals of Medical Colleges besides assessing the status of faculty and courses offered in each of these colleges.
The Chief Secretary thoroughly analysed the progress achieved in introduction of specialization courses (MD/MS, DM/MCH and DNB), increase of 50 MBBS seats in new medical colleges, status of faculty recruitment and strengthening of the tertiary care services in all the newly established GMCs.
The meeting besides Secretary, H&ME was attended by Director, SKIMS; Principals of GMC, Srinagar, Jammu, Anantnag, Baramulla, Kathua, Doda, Rajouri, Udhampur, Handwara; MD, JKMSCL; Director, Coordination (Medical Colleges); Director Health, Jammu/Kashmir besides other concerned officers.
The Chief Secretary impressed upon the department to continuously endeavour to upgrade their services especially the tertiary care services like critical care, emergency, neurological, cardiac care, cancer care, kidney care and radiology services by these health institutions.
He impressed upon the Principals of the medical colleges to create a timeline on the basis of infrastructure and manpower available to introduce such high-end services in these colleges.
He advised them to dovetail their available resources to meet such requirements along with taking the much needed assistance from SKIMS and GMCs at Jammu and Srinagar.
He stressed on taking swift measures to augment services in the identified critical care services to save lives of the patients by making timely interventions. He impressed upon them to receive the requisite handholding from the SKIMS or GMC Jammu/Srinagar with respect to training of staff besides acquiring the small equipments, necessary consumables to deal with such exigencies.
The Chief Secretary further enquired from each Principal of the medical college about the new specialized courses like MD/MS, DM/MCH, and DNB successfully introduced in their colleges along with the applications made to NMC this year.
He called for serious perusal of these applications as per set norms to secure the NMC approval before the next academic year.
As far as the introduction of additional 50 MBBS seats are concerned, the Chief Secretary stressed on securing the requisite faculty.
He urged them to fill all the entry level posts of Assistant Professors besides taking steps like hiring of staff on academic arrangement where there are no feasible candidates available to fill higher positions of Professors and Associate Professors through conduction of DPCs.
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