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The planned comprehensive urban health setup will comprise one health care centre, a vector-borne diseases control (VBDC) unit besides a sanitation unit to manage a population of 50,000.
After getting ranked top in both the smart city lists and the most eco-friendly city, it looks like The Diamond city doesn`t seem to stop to pave the development road for the whole country.
As recently,The Diamond City has set up a multifaceted health infrastructure, probably unique in the country, to stay a step ahead in the fight with the Covid-19 pandemic. This will particularly prove to be an advantage in face of the third wave that looms large over the country.
The planned comprehensive urban health setup will comprise one health care centre, a vector-borne diseases control (VBDC) unit besides a sanitation unit to manage a population of 50,000. All these three facilities will come under one Urban Health Centre (UHC) of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC).
“City will be the first in the country to have such an infrastructure,” said AK Naik, deputy commissioner, health. He said that the city already has some infrastructure ready which are still in use, it can be improved further to meet the targets set for better monitoring, management and implementation of healthcare facilties.
As per the existing population, the city needs 88 UHCs. The city now has 52 health centres and 35 VBDC units. To develop the infrastructure, SMC will construct the health centre and VBDC units in each area and fresh staff will also be recruited for these. “With a high rate of urbanisation and industrialisation it was required to upgrade the existing infrastructure,” said a health official.
SMC has proposed around Rs 250 crore investment for infrastructure of the health facilities in the city for the 2021-22 budget. Since the budget was proposed before the second wave of Covid-19 SMC officials claim that the spending on health will increase. Meanwhile, around Rs 75 crore funding will be done by the state government for new employees.
“Every zone in the city has started working on improving the health infrastructure as per the plan and this will help us fight situations like Covid-19 in future. We are also doing health gap analysis depending upon the requirements of each area to achieve targets,” said Banchhanidhi Pani, city municipal commissioner. “Each unit will be able to perform better with a limited population. It will have a doctor who can monitor in all the three areas of healthcare,” Pani added.
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