Chandigarh- Punjab Well being and Household Welfare Minister, Dr. Balbir Singh, in the present day inaugurated a complete two-day capability constructing coaching programme for newly promoted Senior Medical Officers (SMOs), emphasising their pivotal function in strengthening the general public well being supply system on the district and block ranges.
Congratulating the officers on their promotion, Dr. Balbir Singh said that this coaching is particularly designed to boost their administrative, managerial, and programme implementation capacities to make sure that they discharge their new obligations with confidence and effectivity. He highlighted that the success of the state’s flagship well being initiatives relies upon largely on the management, supervision and dedication of those officers on the subject degree.
The Well being Minister directed the SMOs to make sure the efficient implementation of key well being schemes together with Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojana (MMSY), whereas asking them to watch the progress intently by making certain 100% beneficiary enrolment and well timed card technology. The SMOs can leverage the funds for localised healthcare upgrades beneath the MMSY.
Dr. Balbir Singh directed Senior Medical Officers to make sure uninterrupted provide of medicines and diagnostics at Aam Aadmi Clinics, moreover supervising the launch of recent services. He additionally tasked SMOs with bolstering de-addiction providers and monitoring OOAT clinics beneath Yudh Nashian Virudh initiative.
Moreover, the Well being Minister underscored the significance of the Free Medicines initiative, mandating 100% availability of important medicine and sustaining clear inventory administration to forestall shortages.
He assigned SMOs the accountability of monitoring the NCD Screening Programme for all people above 30 years of age for hypertension, diabetes and most cancers, whereas calling for rigorous supervision of case detection and remedy adherence beneath the TB Mukt Abhiyan 100-day marketing campaign.
Sharing an anecdote out of his personal profession as a physician, he recalled that when he was transferred from CHC Kauli in district Patiala however the folks from the village went to the then Well being Minister and the Chief Minister to cease my switch from the village. He exhorted the medical doctors to serve with such a zeal locally.
Dr Balbir Singh referred to as for moral observe, service with smile, compassion and empathy with emphasis on networking with the group as typically even easy issues could make an enormous distinction. He referred to as upon the officers to work with dedication and accountability to meet the imaginative and prescient of a wholesome, drug-free, and empowered Punjab—a really Sehatmand and Rangla Punjab.
Dr Hitinder Kaur Director Well being and Household Welfare, Dr Aditi Salaria Director Well being Companies (Household Welfare) additionally motivated the newly promoted SMOs to work effectively and successfully.
Dr Parvinder Kaur Program officer (Coaching) and different State Program Officers might be coaching the contributors intimately relating to profitable implementation of assorted well being applications.
