Governor Anandiben Patel said that eyes donation is a Mahadaan. Entire society is responsible to prepare masses for this noble cause. Government along with all the sections of the society and doctors should ensure its active participation in this great work. Moreover, doctors should pay a special attention to ensure that patients should not be deprived of treatment due to lack of funds.
Pay special attention to the health of women and children to build healthy society. Patel was addressing the Seminar organized under joint aegis of the State Blindness Control Society and AIIMS in connection to control disease related to cornea and cataract here on Sunday.
Need to pay special attention to children’s health
The Governor asserted that special attention should be paid on children’s health. Doctors should organize workshops at districts and tehsils headquarters in primary schools for anganwadi workers and helpers in order to impart health related information to children. Take cooperation from medical students and private doctors too in this activity. She laid emphasis on need for efforts for generating people awareness to control causes of disease, so that disease could be prevented from small precautions. Furthermore, Smt. Patel mentioned that doctors should treat people like family members. Bed allotted to patients in hospitals must have a plate carrying patients’ name, disease, and detail of medicines essentially.
The Governor said that reach of health services must be ensured to weakest person of the society and to the remote area. Uniformity must be ensured in providing medical services in urban and rural areas.
Doctors should take cooperation from the affluent people of the society for medical treatment of poor. She stated that constant awareness should be generated among the people by providing them information about the reasons of diseases and measures for its prevention.
Patel said that the entire society will have to pay attention to ensure good health services to girls and women. She laid stress on special efforts for cleanliness and environment conservation.
The Governor praised the efforts being made at AIIMS for the welfare of children of labourers and school being run for them. She presented dry fruits, fruits and books to the children of ‘Apna School, being run in the campus of AIIMS. Patel inspected the intensive malnutrition unit of the institute and obtained information from the doctors and mothers of the children about the health of the children under treatment at the unit.
