New DelhiWhich were the fourteen medical colleges Established State Medical Education Secretary Alok Kumar has claimed that the health infrastructure in the districts of Uttar Pradesh has improved in the last year.
In an internal report prepared by Kumar this month, he compared the various services offered in 14 district hospitals, which were to be converted into medical colleges in 2022, by upgrading their infrastructure.
According to the report, which has been accessed by ThePrint, the 2019 data has been compared with that of 2022 on four parameters including the number of caesarean deliveries ,C-section), major surgery performed in hospitals and admission to outpatient and inpatient departments. Data for 2020 and 2021 was not used as they were the years of the pandemic.
Sharing the findings on social media, the secretary said the numbers show improvement in health care infrastructure in the districts.
Drastic improvement in the performance of newly established 14 Medical Colleges. We compare 2019 (pre-covid) with 2022 (post-covid). All parameters have increased by 2 times. There is clear evidence of improvement in health services in these 14 districts.@brajeshpathakup pic.twitter.com/Qb8wI2F3BR
– Alok Kumar 🇮🇳 (@IasAlok) February 10, 2023
According to the report, while a total of 13,112 C-sections were performed across 14 hospitals in 2019, the number is expected to increase to 26,583 in 2022.
OPD or Out Patient Department admissions in hospitals, which were 56,30,550 in 2019, to increase to 85,10,165 in 2022. The number of major surgeries performed in these hospitals was down from 35,290 in 2019 but is expected to increase to 67,867 in 2022. , the report said.
In addition, the number of admissions to the in-patient department has also increased from 4,28,280 in 2019 to approximately 8,91,081 in 2022.
Talking about the improvement in the quality of healthcare services offered, he said the fact that better staffing and greater monitoring worked in favor of the hospitals.
according to the media reportsBefore 2017, there were only 12 government medical colleges in UP. With the addition of 14 new medical colleges, the government is trying to meet the needs of the central government. Target One medical college in every district
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‘Best features, all in one place’
Speaking to ThePrint, Kumar said the central government has allowed 157 new medical colleges in the country by 2021. Under this scheme existing district hospitals were to be upgraded to medical colleges and 14 such upgrades took place in UP.
“The idea behind setting up the medical college is to upgrade the health infrastructure and bring more people to the hospital. To get them we needed to build their trust and get a certain number of patients. Since a certain number of patients are already coming to the district hospitals, it was better to upgrade the district hospitals to medical colleges,” said Kumar.
He said: “After hospitals were made into medical colleges, we had better facilities to offer, such as better blood transfusion machines, better pathology facilities and testing facilities, all available in one place. Used to go to private labs and then get tested, now everything happens at one place, due to which they face a lot of trouble.
Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh came out with a report card highlighting its achievements on the occasion of completion of five-and-a-half years in office in 2021, according to which the government has increased the number of students in government medical colleges during this period. 1,838 and 1,750 seats were added in private medical colleges. The report also states that 7,000 seats have been added in nursing courses and 2,000 in paramedical. ThePrint has a copy of the report.
(Edited by Poulomi Banerjee)
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