Odisha launches cost-free air well being companies for 4 distant districts

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday launched a brand new initiative, the Mukhyamantri Vayu Swasthya Seva (Air Health Services) on the Biju Patnaik International Airport right here to take well being companies to individuals of distant and backward areas of the State.

The service can be made obtainable to individuals of 4 districts, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Kalahandi and Nuapada within the first section. Launching the brand new initiative, the Chief Minister mentioned that individuals of 4 districts will now get improved well being companies.

Health and household welfare minister Naba Kishore Das mentioned that the service can be provided freed from price to sufferers. He mentioned that if required essential sufferers can be airlifted to Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. 

A group of docs together with a heart specialist and urologist took the inaugural flight to Malkangiri. The sufferers have been earlier chosen by teleconsultations.

Neurologists, nephrologists, cardiologists from medical faculties and company hospitals, primarily in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, can be flown to the 4 district headquarters hospitals, the place diagnostic services and operation theatres, have been created holding in thoughts the specialised care. Besides, essential sufferers from the 4 districts may also be flown to hospitals in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.

The scheme will profit individuals from weaker sections of society and bridge the hole in well being care companies.