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The Bihar Government has launched a New Generation Health Guarantee Scheme aiming to make available health cards to 3.40 crore children in the State.
The Chief Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, chaired a meeting of Bihar State Health Mission here on Thursday and stressed the need for accelerating the pace of reaching the health cards to the children.
The State Health Secretary, Mr Amarjeet Sinha, said the Chief Minister decided to opt out of the chairmanship of the mission and the State Health Minister, Mr Ashwini Kumar Choubey, would now be the chairman of the mission.
Mr Sinha said the Chief Minister reviewed the health projects of Stage-I which began in 2006 and expressed satisfaction over increase in turnouts of patients at the Public Health Centres (PHCs) from 39 per month to 5,000 plus per month at present.
Under Stage-I, emphasis was laid on making available doctors and para-medical staff at all the PHCs round-the-clock, construction of buildings and providing a select brand of medicines free of cost, besides improving other infrastructural facilities, he said.
The Deputy Chief Minister, Mr S.K. Modi, JD(U) MP Mr Ramsunder Das, the State BJP chief, Mr C.P. Thakur; eminent doctors Dr S.N. Arya and Dr N. Prasad, besides Dr P. Padmanabham, National Health Resource Centre advisor, representatives of WHO and Gates and Melinda Foundation also attended the meeting.
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