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| Drabu stresses on fiscal autonomy to hospitals for their smooth functioning; Centre to provide quality cancer treatment: Asiea Naqash |
SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 28: Minister
for Finance, Labour and Employment, Dr. Haseeb A Drabu along with Minister of
State for Medical Education, Asiea Naqash today inaugurated the mended
Radiation Center with latest equipments in SMHS hospital which was damaged in
2014-floods.
On the occasion addressing the jam-packed audience at Government
Medical College (GMC) auditorium, Dr Drabu laid stress on financial autonomy to
hospitals like other educational institutions to avoid any hindrance in smooth
functioning of hospitals.
He said, “Finance can’t be a restraint and we will have to find resources to provide quality
healthcare people, and in this regard we will have to jointly design a
mechanism to make hospitals financially autonomous”.
Finance Minister said that the State is spending less than a percent of
gross domestic product on health care which needs to be looked upon adding, “we should
be spending at least 4 to 6 percent of domestic product on health care to
upgrade its standards and measures are underway to revamp the system”.
He assured the Head Department of Radiation Oncology to provide them
with the PET scan machinery by March next year.
On the occasion, Asiea Naqash assured the Department of every possible
help so that quality treatment is provided to patients suffering from cancer
and other diseases.
Principal Dean GMC, Prof. Samiya Rashid said that the latest machinery
will help the Centre to better treat the patients.
Cancer treatment equipments at the Centre include Rs 4.75 crore Equinox
Cobalt Unit, Rs 3.7 crore C T Simulator and Rs 3.5 crore Brachy Therapy Unit.
It was said that with the availability of this facility, most cancer
patients will be treated at the hospital and some patients who were referred to
outside stations will also be taken care of by the sophisticated and
state-of-art equipment. The
installation of the equipments would be completed by May-June 2018.
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