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Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao connected Tuesday said that redeployment of gynaecologists and anaesthetists from assemblage wellness centres (CHCs) successful agrarian areas with lesser deliveries to taluk hospitals was done successful an effort to trim neonatal deaths aft an audit of neonatal deaths successful antithetic areas of the State.
Replying to a statement connected issues related to the Health Department successful the Assembly, the Minister sought to allay fears that redeployment of gynaecologists and anaesthetists from CHCs to taluk hospitals would impact the agrarian wellness sector, arsenic alleged by the Opposition.
“The audit into neonatal deaths pointed towards a deficiency of availability of specified specialists successful taluk hospitals. It besides threw airy connected the information that these specialists did not person overmuch enactment successful the CHCs. Hence, the authorities took up the inaugural to upgrade the taluk hospitals to the level of territory hospitals by ensuring round-the-clock availability of specified specialists successful taluk hospitals,” helium explained.
“We person evolved a protocol arsenic per which the taluk hospitals should guarantee round-the-clock availability of 2 gynaecologists, 2 anaesthetists, 2 paediatricians, and a radiologist,” helium explained.
He sought to downplay fears of the PHCs enactment getting affected by pointing retired that 2 doctors with MBBS qualification were being deployed successful spot of specialists who were moved retired from CHCs. He argued that successful lawsuit of complications, radical could ever scope the taluk hospitals.
NMR successful State
The neonatal mortality complaint (NMR) that stood astatine 62 successful the State successful 2022-23 had reduced to 59 successful 2023-24 and 57 successful 2024-25 and 48 truthful acold successful the contiguous year, the Minister said. The authorities had acceptable a people of reducing it further to 38 by 2028, helium noted.
Refuting allegations that agrarian wellness needs had been ignored, the Minister maintained that arsenic against the norms that determination should beryllium a superior wellness centre for a colonisation of 20,000 to 30,000, 97 PHCs successful Karnataka had a colonisation of astir 5,000 nether them. Similarly, 372 PHCs had a colonisation sum of 5,000 to 10,000, helium pointed out.
However, not satisfied by the Minister’s reply, the Opposition members staged a walkout
