PNS | Vijayawada
Announcing that Jagananna Aarogya Suraksha will be launched across the State on September 30, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has directed the officials to make it successful similar to Jagananna Suraksha.
During a virtual review meeting on YSR Aarogyasri held at the Camp Office here on Wednesday, the Chief Minister told District Collectors that the programme would run for 45 days in four phases.
The fifth phase will involve hand holding the chronic patients by family doctors and village clinics for providing periodical treatment.
The Chief Minister released a brochure, ‘How to get free medical treatment under YSR Aarogyasri’, published by the Aarogyasri Health Care Trust to create awareness among the public.
In the first phase, teams consisting of volunteers, Gruha Saradhulu and people’s representatives would begin visiting households in rural and urban areas for identifying health issues of people and collecting their details.
In the second phase, health workers like ANMs, ASHA workers, CHOs and volunteers would visit the people and create awareness on downloading the Aarogyasri App and on efficiently using the scheme at various hospitals free of cost.
In the third phase, teams consisting of volunteers, Gruha Saradhulu and people’s representatives would remind the people to attend the health camps three days in advance and in the fourth phase, health camps would be conducted with the active involvement of four doctors, two specialist doctors and two from the PHCs. In the entire process, family doctors and village clinics will play the lead role, he said.
The first phase will begin on September 15 and the first health camp in all Mandals and urban wards would be conducted on September 30, he said.
He said that the Jagananna Aarogya Suraksha is a recurring programme involving periodic diagnosis of patients, periodic consultation and periodic supply of medicines wherever necessary with post-treatment medicines also being given to the chronic patients.
General health and eye camps should be organized on a particular day in each village and ward. After conducting diagnostic tests at the camps, people would be advised on treatment methods and given free medicines and eye glasses by family doctors, he said.
In every village and ward, all households should be covered for identifying people suffering from chronic ailments and BP and sugar, anemic patients, pregnant women, lactating mothers, dialysis and paralysis patients apart from neonatal cases, said the Chief Minister.
It involves hand holding the chronic patients In the fifth phase, from providing counseling to directing them to Aarogyasri hospitals for necessary treatment.
“Every month, health camps should be conducted in four villages at least in every Mandal so that we can organize these camps in all villages in every Mandal every six months,” he said.
Medical and Health Minister V Rajani, CS Dr KS Jawahar Reddy, CCLA G Sai Prasad and Secretary to CCLA A Md Imtiaz, Special CS MT Krishna Babu (Medical and Health), Women & Child Welfare Principal Secretary G. Jayalakshmi and Commissioner M Janaki, School Education Commissioner, S Suresh, Health and Family Welfare Director J.Nivas, Aarogyasri Trust CEO MN Harinder Prasad, Finance Secretary N Guljar, Tribal Welfare Director Venkata Murali, Municipal Administration Commissioner P. Koteswara Rao and other officials were among those present.
