Jharkhand has made significant improvements in terms of providing accessible, affordable and inclusive healthcare to the last mile. This transformation is underscored by improved health indictors, emergence of health and wellness centres to provide quality and comprehensive primary healthcare services and more number of medical colleges planned to boost availability of doctors and healthcare professionals across the state. The State government aims to provide National Quality Assurance (NQA) Certification to all the hospitals in order to provide quality medical facilities to masses, says Dr Nitin Madan Kulkarni, Secretary, Department of Health, Medical Education & Family Welfare, Government of Jharkhand in an exclusive interview with Gopi Krishna Arora and Mukul Kumar Mishra of Elets News Network (ENN).
Q How do you assess evolving healthcare delivery system of Jharkhand which aims to provide quality care to people at large?
Jharkhand has made a significant improvement in healthcare delivery through its careful planning and execution of healthcare programmes. We have been constantly evolving to enable people of all strata to avail accessible and affordable care.
National Health Mission (NHM) has helped the State of Jharkhand to build better capabilities for healthcare, be it in terms of infrastructure, better healthcare resources or better trained personnel.
After the launch of NHM in Jharkhand public health services have become more flexible and government of Jharkhand is able to address more maternal and child health-related issues.
Regarding health indicators, we have improved in several aspects. IMR reduced from 72 (in 2000) to 29 (SRS 2016), MMR reduced from 400 (in 2000) to 165 (SRS 2016) and TFR reduced from 3.2 (NFHS 3 -2007-08) to 2.5 (SRS 2016). The State eradicated Polio in 2014-15.
HSCs, PHCs and UPHCs have evolved into health and wellness centres to provide quality and comprehensive primary health care services that have become more accessible to the people.
More number of medical colleges will be started in Jharkhand to improve the doctors’ availability across the state. In addition, the State Government is planning to provide National Quality Assurance (NQA) Certification to all the hospitals in order to provide quality medical facilities to masses.
Q Shed some light on the schemes and initiatives which have been undertaken by the NHM in order to improve accessibility and affordability factor.
To provide accessible, quality and affordable medical facilities with minimum out-of-pocket expenditure to the last person of the last village following schemes have been initiated under NHM:
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