Health Minister Harish Rao said the state will recruit 960 doctors within a week.
UPDATE – 11:41 PM, TUESDAY – DECEMBER 22
Minister Harish Rao at a review meeting with Kanti Velugu behavior collectors. All districts held a video conference in Jagtial on Tuesday.
hunt: Health and Finance Minister T Harish Rao wants the state government’s prestigious project Kanti Velugu to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. Everyone, including department officials and representatives of the public, should work towards the record, he said.
Talking about the scarcity of doctors to successfully implement Kanti Velugu, Harish Rao made it clear that there will be no shortage of doctors as they will be recruiting 960 doctors in a week.
The minister was here to check the arrangements for the visit of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who was in Jagital on Wednesday, and a review meeting on Kanti Velugu with collectors and other officials from all districts on Tuesday via video conference.
On this occasion, he directed officials to take all measures to make the second phase of the Kanti Velugu scheme a complete success, and hoped that officials from various ministries would be actively involved in the scheme to benefit the poor.
The Minister advised officials to continue to work with representatives of the public and hoped that representatives of MPs, MLAs, MLCs and local bodies would be involved in the programme.
Informing Kanti Velugu that the first phase lasted eight months, he said that the second phase must be completed within a hundred working days. To this end, the number of test teams has also increased from 827 to 1,500. Glasses will be provided for free to all through statewide vision testing. Three million pairs of reading glasses and 2.5 million pairs of prescription glasses will be provided, he informed and directed officials to complete the process of transferring the glasses to the districts before the program begins.
Distribution of prescription glasses should be done within a month of eye tests, he instructed, adding that the government was ready to provide everything, but stressed that officials should be committed to making the program a success. The Minister advised health personnel to make arrangements without affecting normal health services. Collectors, district medical and health cadres, and cadres from other departments must cooperate with each other to make this project bigger.
He advised medical and health department officials to prepare plans by discussing with municipalities and Panchayat Raj departments. Stressing the need to publicize the plan at the village, Manda and district levels, he wanted officials to discuss the Kanti Velugu plan in Manda, Zila and municipal meetings. After the district micro-planning is completed, the competent district ministers shall hold a meeting with representatives of the district public and set dates for the launch of vision testing camps in their respective districts.
He directed officials to have a five percent buffer team (advance team) ready to avoid staff shortages, and he wanted the authorities to make special arrangements for female staff. In addition to 10 national-level quality inspection groups, each district will also set up district-level quality inspection groups to check the quality of ophthalmology inspections. He said special arrangements would also be made to test those who failed to attend the training camp.
Chief Secretary for Health Rizvi joined the review from Hyderabad, Commissioner Swetha, Public Health Director Srinivas and additional collector Manda Makarand from Jagtial.
