Minister for Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare Satya Kumar Yadav has designed a 30-point action plan, based on the suggestions of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and various discussions the department has had since last year, to improve healthcare services in the State.
These points comprise the health targets set for achieving Swarnandhra-2047.
The Health Minister has instructed Special Chief Secretary M.T. Krishna Babu to review the performance of the department on these points from time to time.
Some of these points include improving communication plan to ensure information related to health and medicine is reaching people, identifying healthcare services that can be delivered to people through WhatsApp, Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Machine Learning(ML) tools, sensitising and educating private hospitals and NGOs about the health sector vision document goals for 2029 and 2047.
The Minister, in the 30-point document released to the media on Friday (February 21, 2025), asked the officials to review the present stage of application of AI and ML tools in the healthcare services, data collection about people’s health, and also asked them to review workload on ANMs.
He asked them to formulate a roadmap for digitisation of healthcare in the State and an action plan for improving service delivery to the people through ‘phygital’ (physical and digital) means.
He said due attention should be paid to filling of vacancies of doctors, Female and Male Nursing Orderlies (FMO and MNO) and putting a check to unauthorised absence of doctors from duties.
He said a meeting of all Heads of Departments should be held on the first Tuesday of every month for better performance, and a regular review and reporting on the progress in respect of the 30-Point action plan should be done.
For better dissemination of information, initiatives, achievements on a regular basis, officials should use social media platforms effectively, and all the officials need to have accounts on these platforms, the Minister said in the document.
He also asked officials to explore the possibility of setting up an advisory or consultative body of eminent doctors and educationists from both the private and public sectors from both within and outside the State for regular review and discussion on emerging issues in the State.
