Writeup AP 2011-12 - Punjab State Planning Board

11.5.65 An outlay of Rs. 100.00 lac was provided in the year 2009-10. An outlay of
Rs. 500.00 lac had been provided for the Annual Plan 2010-11. An outlay of Rs. 500.00 lac is
provided for the Annual Plan 2011-12 as 40% state share for recurring/operational cost.
State Funded Schemes
DHS-23 Providing hotline facilities in the district and sub-divisional hospitals in
the State.
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Outlay -Rs. 200 .00 lac
11.5.66 Hospital Services at the Secondary level play a vital and complementary role.
After prevention, the cure is only remedy. The Punjab Health Systems Corporation is
managing 171 secondary level hospitals in the State. In these hospitals, emergency services
are being provided and special surgical interventions are being done along with diagnostic
tests. Recently, in selected hospitals trauma centres have been set up. There are power cuts
in the urban as well as rural areas and these cuts are quite long during the peak hours. The
emergency interventions due to power cuts thus suffer.
11.5.67 Though, the state govt. has provided diesel generator sets in the hospitals but
these serve very limited purpose and limited interventions can be done as heavy medical
equipment like; X-Ray Machines, Ultrasound Scanner, Cardiac Monitors, Defibrillators, Eye
& ENT Equipment, Laparoscopes, Dialysis Machines, Autoclaves, Lab. Equipment,
Mortuary Refrigerators, Blood Bank Refrigerators etc. can not function on generator sets. In
order to provide round the clock emergency services, it has been decided to provide Hotline
(uninterrupted electricity facility) through Punjab State Electricity Board(PSEB) in all the
District Hospitals and Sub-divisional Hospitals. An amount of Rs. 4.05 Cr will be required
for depositing with the PSEB as development charges for providing additional poles and high
tension wires from the feeder.
11.5.68 An outlay of Rs. 100.00 lac had been provided for the Annual Plan 2010-11,
against which same expenditure was incurred. An outlay fo Rs. 200.00 lac is provided for the
Annual Plan 2011-12.
DHS-24 Setting up of mobile cancer detection units in the state.
Outlay -Rs. 179.00 lac
11.5.69 Cancer is a dreadful disease caused by multiple risk factors like smoking,
consumption alcohol, high consumption of non-vegetarian and spicy food, high levels of