Monitorable Targets For 11 - Punjab State Planning Board

1601 ANMs, 181 Ayurvedic, 112 Homoeopathic doctors and 293 Up-Vaids were recruited in
the year 2009-10. Recruitment of additional 400 doctors is under process.
102. Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna providing insurance cover upto Rs.30,000 to
BPL People families has been extended to all the 20 districts. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme [MGNREGS] beneficiaries who have worked for more than 15
days during the preceding financial year, will also be now eligible for Rashtriya Swasthya Bima
Yojna. All school children are being screened under the School Health Programme. Students
suffering from congenital heart diseases and cancer are being treated at PGI, Chandigarh and
major private hospitals free of cost by the State Government. The referral treatment for school
students in all Government Hospitals was made free in June, 2009. All the essential drugs are
being supplied free of cost to the patients in Government hospitals. Jan Aushadhi Stores for
supplying medicines at cheaper rates have been opened in all the 20 district hospitals and more
such stores would be opened in the bigger Sub-divisional Hospitals in the year 2010-11.
103. The State has prepared a Rs 346 cr plan for upgradation of Health Infrastructure
and equipments in the hospitals . 5 District Hospitals and 3 Sub Divisional Hospitals are being
upgraded at an estimated cost of Rs. 23 crore. 3 Community Health Centres are under
construction. In the year 2010-11, the Government proposes to upgrade the Civil Hospitals at
Faridkot, Sangrur and Abohar at an estimated cost of Rs. 10 crore. 8 Primary Health Centres are
proposed to be upgraded to Community Health Centres at an estimated cost of Rs. 20 crores.
104. The State is successfully implementing National Rural Health Mission for which
the outlay has been increased from Rs. 250 crore to Rs. 315 crore. More than 1600 Auxiliary
Nurse Midwives and 1089 Staff Nurses have been recruited under National Rural Health
Mission. While the upgradation of rural infrastructure is taken care of under NRHM, a sum of
Rs. 36 crore has been separately provided for the Urban Health Infrastructure.
105. The Government has undertaken comprehensive upgradation of 3 Government
Medical Colleges and Baba Farid University of Health Sciences at an estimated cost of Rs. 284
crore. The works are likely to be completed by 2011-12. The Punjab Institute of Medical
Sciences, Jalandhar has been handed over to the Private Partner and the institute is likely to
make admissions in the current year. The State Government has earmarked Rs. 43 crores for
Medical Education Department in the year 2010-11. The Government has decided to fill up all
the vacant posts of faculty and other paramedical staff.
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