SRINAGAR: In order to strengthen drug testing, the Jammu and Kashmir government is commissioning a modern drug testing laboratory very soon, the Secretary of Health and Medical Education said on Tuesday.
Talking to reporters at the sidelines of an event in Srinagar, Health Secretary Bhupinder Kumar said that to check the quality of the medicines J&K has a drug controller department who have taken samples and tested them besides that all requisite standards are being followed in procuring medicines in hospitals.
“To further strengthen drug testing in J&K, a modern drug testing laboratory is being commissioned in J & K as soon as the lab is near completion and machines are being installed there and very soon we will have a better testing facility in place”, he said.
Kumar said that with the help of the Union Government, the existing labs in Government Medical College Srinagar and Government College Jammu are also being strengthened and Rs 23 crores have been already sanctioned.
“Our focus is to strengthen the testing facility and wherever there will be any kind of violation, necessary action will be taken against them,” he said.
He said that the government has been taking all steps to enhance facilities so as to provide better health care to the public.
He added that Indian Public Health Standards norms are fixed and gaps are being checked at a peripheral level which is being filled to provide health care facilities to the public at their doorsteps.
“Gap analysis has been done following which a road map has been prepared to fulfill these gaps in a requisite manner,” he said.
“Around 3000 vaccines in the health department have been already being referred to concerned agencies and among them around 2000 have been filled and it is a continuous process and all vaccines will be filled,” Health and Medical Education Secretary Said.
To a query about long stays of doctors and paramedics, he said that case-to-case examination is being done and action will be taken for those who have long stays as per transfer policy—(KNO)
