UP govt planning to launch control centers to boost health infrastructure
Seeking to boost health system at the grass-roots level, the Uttar Pradesh government will soon launch a network of “24×7 control centres” across the state that will allow people to consult doctors through telephones.
State’s health minister Siddharth Nath Singh said this late evening here, at a time when deaths of children in Gorakhpur and Farrukhabad hospitals have hogged headlines.
“When it comes to IMR (infant mortality rate), MMR (maternal mortality rate), we are perhaps one of the worst states.
“We have a shortage of 7,500 doctors and about 19,000 paramedical staff. But, we are committed to improve the situation,” he said while addressing the valedictory session at 10th Medical Technology Conference.
At the event, hosted by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and also ...