Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday pitched to change the mindset of the doctors and nurses and upgrade the health care system in the state which is currently in dilapidated condition where a large section of patients are deprived at large. Chief Minister was addressing the doctors and nurses at Agartala Rabindra Bhawan on the occasion of World Health day celebration. State health minister Sudip Roy Barman also remained present in the occasion.
Making an empathic call for change of mindset of doctors and other stakeholders, the Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday while addressing the giant gathering of medicos at Agartala Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhawan on the occasion of World Health Day celebration has said that the state's health care system needs a serious attention. He urged upon the medicos to put an effort of providing better health care system in the hospitals, so that the common masses of this state are not deprived.
Meantime the state health Minister Sudip Roy Barman who also remained present in the programme addressing the gathering and expressed his agony over the doctors' crisis in the government run hospitals here. Mr. Barman said the doctors who are brought up in Tripura's soil are making name and fame abroad.
However, Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Samarjit Bhowmik, president of Public Health Foundation of India Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, Director of Health Services JK Debbarma and Mission Director of NHM Dr. Sailesh K Yadav remained present in the programme.
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