Swasthya seva utsav to start in cachar

way2barak, April 4: Along with rest of the state, the  ‘Swasthya Seva Utsav’ will be conducted  to access the quality of service providers and service delivery of health institutions in cachar. Three days ‘Swasthya seva utsav’ will be conducted from 6th to 8th April in the Cachar district.  There will be a total of 42 government hospitals including Silchar Satindra Mohan Dev Civil Hospital.

While briefing to the media at the conference hall of DC’S office here on Tuesday, Additional Deputy commissioner, (incharge, Health),Yubaraj Borthakur said that in the same way that the evaluators give different grades by checking the quality of reading and reading in the schools, hospitals will also be given grades by checking the quality of health services.  The evaluators themselves are patients in this case with checking the quality of the service, starting from 6th April in Cachar, it will continue upto April 8.

ADC health, Borthakur said “Evaluators will observe the hospital services after verification process of  hospital the Evaluator will give grade percentage Value 70% the hospital will be given ‘A grade’, ‘B grade’ if 50 to 69 percent and ‘C grade’ if less than 50 per cent.

“Positive effects are being observed in the education sector as a result of Gunotsav” mentioned Borthakur.

The ADC Yubaraj Borthakur also said that besides local authorities and public representatives will also act as evaluators for the evaluation, 15 high-ranking officials will come from Guwahati to improve the standards.   Based on the assessment, action will be taken in the hospitals after the festival to improve of the hospitals as per IPHS standard.

Borthakur further said that health care festival will be held in 42 hospitals in Cachar.  Apart from Silchar Satindra Mohan Dev Civil Hospital, there are 7 community health centers and more than 34 primary health centers. Hospitals are also expected to have a positive impact on services.

It is worthy to mention that the basic objective of the program is to access the health institutions, it’s infrastructure, human resources and quality of services rendered through independent accesors to attain a level of quality of services in each health facility.

 Dr. PK Roy, Addl CM&HO (FW) and Dr. Gulbahar Raj District Media Expert, National Health Services of the district were present on the occasion.

This is stated in a press release issued from Regional Office of Information and Public Relations Barak valley Zone Silchar Assam.