Srinagar, August 19: The CPI (M) today asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to make posting of doctors in rural areas mandatory to improve health care facilities in villages. During question hour in the assembly, party”s state unit secretary M Y Tarigami said promoting health care in rural areas was crucial as the state”s major chunk of population lives in villages.
The Marxist leader called for giving renewed thrust on primary health care to reduce rush to city hospitals. Healthcare infrastructure should be augmented with the provision of all basic surgical and diagnostic equipment in such centres.
The National Rural Health Mission, a flagship programme of the Centre, has not brought any noticeable improvement in rural medicare, he said and alleged that funds under the scheme were not being utilized in full.
—-Agencies