Kalpetta sources have added that Health Minister K. K. Shylaja has said that all district hospitals in the State will be upgraded as super-specialty hospitals with modern health-care facilities and that the policy of the government was not to set up more government hospitals.
Shylaja has added that Primary health centers (PHC) will be converted into family health centers (FHC), adding that each PHC in the 140 Assembly constituencies in the State would be converted into FHCs in the first phase and dialysis units would be set up in all taluk hospitals and vacancy of general medical practitioners in primary health centers in the State would be filled on a war footing.
Ms. Shylaja has also said special consideration would be given to the completion of the project and though the government had earmarked Rs.3 crore for the initial work of the project, measures would be expedited to allot more funds for the completion of the project at the earliest.
Finally she has told that as the dearth of doctors and paramedical staffs was the major challenge being faced by the public health sector, the government had decided to make three year rural service mandatory for postgraduate medical students.
