Nitish calls for awareness on health facilities

Patna, Feb 24 (UNI) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today exhorted the people's representatives to generate awareness about facilities offered by government in health sector and keep a watch on utilisation of funds.

Inaugurating a 'mass awareness week on health' here, Mr Kumar said a computerised data base system incorporating details about the health facilities in the state would be opened for public through a website.

He said any one could know details about the diagnosis of the patient at any health centre on the website across the state.

'' Informations regarding the nature of disease, medicines prescribed and also about the doctors who attended the patients at any health centre would be available on website which would help in better monitoring of functioning of the heath care services '' he added.

He said that state government had initiated steps for providing safe drinking water to the people as contaminated water was the route cause behind 90 percent of gastro-enterological disorders.

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