111 MBBS doctors selected under NHM in record time to improve health care services in the State
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Srinagar, July 07 (RNA): With a view to increase access for health care services across the State, National Health Mission, J&K issued selection list for as many as 111 MBBS doctors through walk-in interview on 4th & 6th July 2019 at Jammu and Srinagar in a record time. To ensure transparency the competent authority issued the selection lists on the same day of walk-in interviews. The selected doctors have been posted in various health institutions of the State especially to strengthen the Maternal & Child Health Services in Special Newborn Care Units (SNCUs) and various peripheral health care institutions.
Sh Bhupinder Kumar, Mission Director, NHM, J&K in a statement said that the State of Jammu & Kashmir is committed and is taking adequate measures including hiring of manpower in a transparent manner to eliminate preventable deaths of newborns and children by 2030 in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) i.e; By 2030,to end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1000 live births. He further said that the State of J&K has already achieved Under 5 mortality rate of 26 (SRS 2016) and aims to achieve single digit Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) by 2022 for which a roadmap has already been drafted by the Health & Medical Education Department under the guidance of Sh Atal Dulloo, Financial Commissioner to Govt. Health & Medical Education Department.
The focus of State Health Society, NHM shall continue to remain on deployment of skilled health work force in rural and remote areas which includes financial incentives for ensuring availability of doctors in difficult areas, he added. (RNA)