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In a determination aimed astatine strengthening maternal and kid healthcare services successful Karnataka, the State authorities has issued an bid granting administrative support to supply six-month ultrasonography grooming to in-service MBBS doctors of the Health Department.
The determination follows the shortage of radiologists successful respective territory hospitals, which has affected the transportation of prime antenatal and postnatal services. To code diagnostic gaps, the authorities has besides decided to make 114 caller radiologist posts. Currently, determination are lone 75 sanctioned radiologists successful 189 facilities (148 taluk hospitals and 41 assemblage wellness centres).
The grooming programme volition beryllium conducted successful accordance with the provisions of the PC & PNDT Act and the Training Rules, 2014, officials said.
Training centres
A full of 11 hospitals crossed the State person been identified arsenic grooming centres. These see K.C. General Hospital and Jayanagar General Hospital successful Bengaluru; Lady Goschen Hospital and Wenlock Hospital successful Mangaluru; Chigateri District Hospital successful Davanagere; and territory hospitals successful Chikkaballapur, Dharwad, Tumakuru, Vijayapura, Ballari, Kolar and Bagalkot, according to the Order.
The authorities aims to bid 69 MBBS doctors nether the guidance of 23 module members, maintaining a teacher-student ratio of 1:3. Only in-service MBBS doctors volition beryllium eligible for the programme. Doctors who implicit the grooming volition beryllium required to supply ultrasonography services exclusively successful authorities hospitals.
To guarantee uninterrupted nationalist healthcare services, territory wellness officers person been directed to name doctors connected a contractual ground successful spot of those undergoing training.
Rationalisation
The Health Department is moving connected rationalising deployment of specialists nether the Mother and Child Health (MCH) triad — gynaecologists, anaesthetists and paediatricians — crossed taluk hospitals and assemblage wellness centres (CHCs).
The determination is to guarantee that each taluk hospitals relation arsenic Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC) facilities, susceptible of handling analyzable deliveries, Caesarean sections and newborn emergencies circular the clock.
“We are introducing a rotating ‘double triad’ strategy to marque specialists disposable 24/7. This volition forestall unnecessary referrals to tertiary hospitals, wherever delays often beryllium fatal,” Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao had said.
