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Minister for Health Ma. Subramanian connected Wednesday said that the fig of outpatients visiting the Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital successful Salem had doubled during the DMK government, aft instauration of infrastructure and procurement of instrumentality astatine a full outgo of ₹65 crore implicit the past 4 and a fractional years.
The Minister, successful the beingness of Tourism Minister R. Rajendran, MLA R. Arul and Collector R. Brindha Devi, inaugurated 17 caller buildings, including facilities astatine Primary Health Centres and sub-centres, constructed astatine a full outgo of ₹8.60 crore.
Addressing the media, Mr. Subramanian said that earlier May 2021, astir 2,000 to 2,800 patients visited the infirmary each day, and the fig had present accrued to 4,500 to 5,000 patients a day. “The summation is owed to improved infrastructure and instrumentality and the spot radical person successful authorities services,” helium said. The Minister pointed retired that infrastructure has been upgraded astatine block-level hospitals, upgraded superior wellness centres, superior wellness centres and sub-centres crossed the district.
In effect to a question whether precautions were being taken regarding brain-eating amoeba infections arsenic Ayyappa devotees question to Kerala, the Minister said the organism is recovered lone successful stagnant, polluted waterbodies, whereas devotees bathe successful flowing water. “There is nary request to panic,” helium said.
Earlier, addressing the gathering, Mr. Subramanian said that successful Salem district, implicit the past four-and-a-half years, assorted buildings and precocious aesculapian instrumentality worthy ₹166.46 crore person been inaugurated, an unprecedented accomplishment successful the district’s history. He recalled the instauration of QR Code–based registration, replacing admittance slips astatine the Salem GH. He added that the fig of outpatients crossed each territory office hospitals, aesculapian assemblage hospitals, PHCs and sub-centres successful the State had risen from 4 lakh to 7 lakh per day.
Mayor A. Ramachandran, Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine A. Somasundaram, Corporation Commissioner M. Elangovan, Joint Director of Health Services Nandhini, and different officials were present.
