Commissioner & Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Menukhol John releasing the biennial magazine of the NMSA on Friday. (Morung Photo)
Kohima | October 7 : The state government today admitted that whereas the government has made satisfactory inroads in the healthcare sector, there still remains much to be desired in this sector, emphasizing that the state needs a lot more of medical professionals and to cut down on the rates of infant and mother mortality.
Addressing the 19th Conference of the Nagaland Medical Students’ Association at the ATI Auditorium here today, Commissioner & Secretary in charge of Health & Family Welfare, Menukhol John disclosed that the state requires some 230-odd medical specialists, some 300-odd general duty medical officers and some 600-plus GNM staff and stressed on the need to create more posts in order to deliver proper healthcare to the people of the state.
Expressing satisfaction that the state has done exceptionally well in the delivery of healthcare in the state, he however admitted that there are still many areas which needs to be addressed. Emphasizing that the high mortality rates of infant and mother deaths in the state is a major cause of concern; he called upon the stressed on the need to step up efforts to address these cases. He attributed the high infant mortality rate to the high prevalence of diarrhea among infants.
Menukhol also proclaimed that the state government’s partnership with the Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders), is proving to be one of the most successful projects where both the state’s medical staff and the MSF staff are learning from each other and presently delivering effective healthcare to the people in far-flung Mon district. In fact, the project was so successful that shortly health workers from the state will be going abroad on an exchange tour, he announced. John further renewed the government’s appeal to go to the rural and remote areas of the state and deliver proper healthcare to the people of the less-privileged areas.
Meanwhile, NMSA President, Dr. Handilo Kath, in his presidential address, highlighted some of the grievances of the current medical professionals including apprehensions among the medical students related to job placements due to limited number of seats. While stressing on the need to set up a medical college in the state at the earliest, he also underscored the need to increase of the seats under the quota being sponsored by the government at the premier institutes too apart from the seven seats that it is sponsoring in the Northeast. He also urged for timely information in the form of circulars and newspaper publications for posts of medical officers in PHCs and CHCs and exam schedules for the benefit of the medical students.
Addressing the 19th Conference of the Nagaland Medical Students’ Association at the ATI Auditorium here today, Commissioner & Secretary in charge of Health & Family Welfare, Menukhol John disclosed that the state requires some 230-odd medical specialists, some 300-odd general duty medical officers and some 600-plus GNM staff and stressed on the need to create more posts in order to deliver proper healthcare to the people of the state.
Expressing satisfaction that the state has done exceptionally well in the delivery of healthcare in the state, he however admitted that there are still many areas which needs to be addressed. Emphasizing that the high mortality rates of infant and mother deaths in the state is a major cause of concern; he called upon the stressed on the need to step up efforts to address these cases. He attributed the high infant mortality rate to the high prevalence of diarrhea among infants.
Menukhol also proclaimed that the state government’s partnership with the Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders), is proving to be one of the most successful projects where both the state’s medical staff and the MSF staff are learning from each other and presently delivering effective healthcare to the people in far-flung Mon district. In fact, the project was so successful that shortly health workers from the state will be going abroad on an exchange tour, he announced. John further renewed the government’s appeal to go to the rural and remote areas of the state and deliver proper healthcare to the people of the less-privileged areas.
Meanwhile, NMSA President, Dr. Handilo Kath, in his presidential address, highlighted some of the grievances of the current medical professionals including apprehensions among the medical students related to job placements due to limited number of seats. While stressing on the need to set up a medical college in the state at the earliest, he also underscored the need to increase of the seats under the quota being sponsored by the government at the premier institutes too apart from the seven seats that it is sponsoring in the Northeast. He also urged for timely information in the form of circulars and newspaper publications for posts of medical officers in PHCs and CHCs and exam schedules for the benefit of the medical students.
