Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu (DC File Photo)
Vijayawada: Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu will launch the universal cancer screening program and STEMI (ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction) intervention against heart attack here on Wednesday.
Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav and Health Special Chief Secretary Krishna Babu held discussions on Tuesday with senior health officials for the launch of the two health programs.
As part of this, screening tests will be carried out state-wide for oral cancer, breast cancer, and cervical cancer for those who completed age 18. Community health officers and ANMs will visit houses and conduct the screening tests.
With the help of a specially designed app, the results of the screening tests will be sent to the government medical colleges and other hospitals associated with the NTR Vaidya Seva. Treatment will be provided to cancer patients. An ASHA worker will accompany each patient to the hospital.
State health authorities say that, on average, 73,000 new cancer cases are getting registered in the state in a year. Of these, 40,000 cancer-affected persons perish. At the national level, from the detection of 14 lakh new cancer cases, death occurs to nine lakh persons.
The state government spent over Rs 680 crore to provide treatment to cancer patients in the last fiscal.
As for STEMI, the health scheme will be implemented in 238 community health centres, area hospitals, district hospitals, and 37 hub hospitals. A special app has been designed.
When a person suffers a heart attack, the concerned hospital in the vicinity may be informed so that the medical officer can take an ECG and send details of it through the app to the hub hospital.
The cardiologist in the hub hospital will give his or her advice on giving the Tenecteplase injection, which costs Rs 45,000. Based on the health condition of the patient, he or she will be shifted to the hub hospital for further care.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle )
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