HARYANA GETS NEW 198 AMBULANCES, 47 MOBILE MEDICAL UNITS

In a bid to strengthen health services in the state, Haryana gets 198 Patient Transport Ambulances (PTAs) and 47 The Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) in its fleet. Besides this, soon a mapping will be conducted with regard to health infrastructure so that all the health services can be made available to the people as per the requirement. Flagging off these PTA and MMU and Anil Vij, the Health Minister Anil Vij that the present government is steadfast to provide better health facilities to the people of the State and in this episode mapping will be done regarding the infrastructure of health services.

He further said that in order to ensure that health services are provided to the people of the State as per the norms, all the private hospitals are now National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH)-accredited. Moreover, more than 350 hospitals in the State are presently NABH-accredited. Likewise, the work of standardization of government hospitals has also been done and till now more than 80 CHCs, PHCs and district hospitals are National Quality Assurance Standard (NQAS) accredited.

It is pertinent to mention that 28 personnel of our Health Department have sacrificed their lives during the Corona period in last two years and in their remembrance, a Wall of Memory has been built at the Headquarters. Besides this, a Wall of Memory has also been built in the area/district where such COVID warriors where they last posted. Besides, now-a-days about 9,000 COVID cases are being reported every day, out of which more than 5,000 cases are reported from districts having proximity with Delhi – Gurugram, Faridabad and Sonipat.

Haryana is the first state in the country where RTPCR labs have been set up in all districts except Jhajjar and soon RTPCR lab will be established in Jhajjar as well. Apart from this, Genome Sequencing Lab has been set up in Rohtak and now Genome Sequencing Lab will be set up at one or two other places also.