I express my sincere gratitude to you for allowing me, a new Parliamentarian, to ask the first question. Respected Madam, I want to know from concerned Minister, through you, that several diseases are mentioned by the him in his reply to the question of National Centre of Disease Control.
It is a matter of severe anxiety as several times the doctors do not know the proper treatment of unknown diseases and hence patients die due to lack of proper treatment. Actually it is a matter of regret that NCDC has not made any awareness programme in Panchayat or block level through knowledgeable doctors and experts. The respected Minister must be aware that Asha and Anganwadi workers in Panchayat and block level detect those persons and bring them of the hospitals and arrange their treatment thus saving their lives. It is a matter of regret that those workers are under NGOs and their salary is very poor. Please help Asha and Anganwadi workers.
These diseases are not controlled in primary level. Respected Speaker Madam, I want to know from the Hon’ble Minister, through you, whether the government has any plan regarding awareness programames for these diseases? What are their plans for health care of sick new-born babies? Do they have any plans for offering free surgery to children with cardiac ailments?
Diseases like Kala-azar, dengue and various other unknown diseases spread all over the country. There are few genetic diseases, AIDS, filariasis, pox, chikunguniya, influenza, thalassemia, meningitis and other diseases which make the patient sick during the whole year; every state government has to make arrangements for the treatment of those diseases.
Madam Speaker, it is a matter of regret that often after the detection of those diseases, central government sends observer teams to the affected area and only after that the central government approves a certain fund for use of the state government. The whole process takes much time.
For that reason it is important to increase awareness among people for which funds are necessary to made available to the state governments.
Hon’ble Minister in his reply stated that 8 states have NCDC and assured another 13 institutes. Bengal has made huge progress in the field of health care but does not have any NCDC yet. I want to know from the Hon’ble Minister, through you, whether there is any plan to open NCDC in West Bengal. If yes, then in which financial year and on what basis?
Thank you.