Bhubaneswar: The state is set to launch a new health program – Mukhyamantri Bayu Swasthya Seva (CM air health service) – to fly a medical specialist on a rented plane to a hospital in four remote districts regularly.
CM Naveen Patnaik is scheduled for the first flight flag from Biju Patnaik International Airport here on Monday.
Officials say services will be offered, free, for patients in Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Ladydom and Nabanada.
On the prime day, the team from SCB Medical College and Hospital, which consists of Datteswar Hota (Urology), Satya Narayan Rouult (cardiologist), Chitta Ranjan Panda (gastroenter expert) will be flown to Malkangiri.
Prospective patients have been selected through tele-consultation held earlier.
A senior government official said the new scheme would serve people from the economically weaker part, which lost proper health care, because of the reluctance of doctors to be posted in remote districts due to their location losses.
Famous specialists such as neurologists, nephrologists, cardiologists from medical colleges and corporate hospitals, especially in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, will be flown to four district head office hospitals.
Hospital infrastructure, including diagnostic facilities and operating cinema, has been made by considering special care.
The doctors who will be flown to carry out procedures and consultations will return on the same day.
For follow-up treatment, telephotas will be used in a large way.
The capacity of members of paramedic and nursing staff is being increased, the official said.
District administration will publish a specialist schedule and screen of patients who will need their services.
The National Multidimensional Poverty Index of Niti Aayog (MPI) which was released recently placed four districts among the most confiscated in this country.
While Odisha is ranked 9th worst among Indian countries, Nabarangpur (59.32%), malkangiri (58.71%) has a maximum percentage of poor among 30 Odisha districts.
Likewise, the availability of health care in Goddown and Nuabada remains a big challenge, efforts for a medical college in the default in the past decade have not produced fruits.
While a private medical college opened in the district closed in two years after entering, working for the government medical college.
The government will review the response and assess needs elsewhere to expand services in the future, said the government government.
Odisha has offered a post-based incentive place to a doctor by dividing a hospital into five categories: from V0, the most vulnerable hospital, for the most difficult V4, offering 100% extra payments to doctors posted in the most difficult hospital.
These categories are based on the backwardness of the area, left-wing extremism, road / train communication, social infrastructure and distance from the capital.
Doctors who work at V1 institutions to V4 get additional signs in the postgraduate entrance examination.