Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy directed the officials to ensure that people get quality medical treatment in the Jagananna Aarogya Suraksha camps. He also wanted them to take steps to set up a kidney research centre in Prakasam district and modern children’s hospitals in Vijayawada, Guntur and Visakhapatnam similar to the one established in Tirupati.
At a review meeting held on the Medical and Health Department at his Camp Office at Tadepalli near here on Friday, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said that Aarogya Suraksha was a prestigious programme that would enhance the goodwill of not only the government but also of the Health Department. The government thinks that patients should be supported even after discharge from hospitals by conducting periodical check-ups and supply of free medicines. Develop SOPs to support the patients not covered by Aarogyasri earlier. The government will release necessary funds for this, he said, adding, the data of such patients should be collected in all village and ward secretariats while health camps are to be conducted at least in four secretariats every month in a mandal linking them with the village clinics and family doctors besides creating awareness among the people about these camps. “There should be weekly reviews with me on the conduct of Arogya Suraksha camps,” he said.
