Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday attended the Medicon-25 medical conference held in Jammu and said that the challenge upon the state was to make healthcare more accessible.
Addressing a conference, the CM stated that the health care in the peripheral areas were not upto the standards which became the reason why people flooded into the cities.
“There are all sorts of debates and discussions that go around on the subjects that Medicon is going to touch upon. Our challenge is to make healthcare more easily accessible… Our peripheral areas’ health care is not to the standard that we require it to be, which is why everyone floods into cities…” the CM said addressing the conference
He stated that the only way to tackle the situation was to improve and add infrastructure in the peripheral areas of Jammu.
He also stated that Government Medical Colleges (GMC) had been opened at district levels.
“The only way we can remove this pressure is not by improving or adding to our infrastructure in Jammu. It’s by adding and improving our infrastructure in the peripheral areas…” he said.
“There was a time when we only had GMC Jammu and GMC Srinagar. Now, we have GMCs at the district level. We have to augment and improve the emergency handling capability and capacity at those GMCs…” he further stated.
He also assured that funds would be raised for better medical facilities and opportunities would be better used.
“We will take a look at it and make some way forward. Better medical facilities will be introduced and I promise that opportunities will also be better used…” he further stated. (ANI)
