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| Computerized Medicine Records in all Government Hospitals soon Posted: 11 Feb 2012 06:06 PM PST Bihar Health Department will computerise the record of medicines for distribution among patients turning up at the state-run hospitals, department’s Principal Secretary Amarjit Sinha said. Talking to reporters here, Sinha expressed concern over the reports of medicines getting expired and dumped into fields in Araria, Samastipur and Begusarai districts. “Now we have decided to computerise the records and stocks of medicines from April 2012,” he said. Sinha said Bihar Medical Services and Infrastructure Corportation Limited has been set up and the inventory of the medicines and records would now be computerised from April, 2012. “We have come across reports from several districts about the medicines being thrown into drains or being kept in open on the rooftop,” he said adding it was wrong and we should be proactive to avoid waste. “We have set a procedure for disposal of the expired medicines available at government hospitals,” Sinha said. He said altogether six medical colleges and hospitals are functional in the state and there has been significant increase in turnouts of patients because of setting right the OPDs there. The department had so far issued health cards to more than 1.4 crore school children between the age group of six to 14 years under the new generation health guarantee programme, Sinha informed. Also See
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| Bihar added 41 sq km of new forests in 2 years Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:08 PM PST There has been an increase of 41 square km of forest area in Bihar according to report of the Forest Survey of India (FSI), 2011. The total forest area in the country was 6,92,394 km in 2009 and there has been decrease of 367 km in the last two years As per the FSI Report, 2011, the state had 6,804 square km of forest area in 2009 which increased to 6,845 square km in 2011 thus recording an increase of 41 square km in the past two years, a positive sign. The Report also quotes that that there has been an increase of 500 square km of forest areas in 15 states, including Bihar Deputy CM Sushil expressed his happiness over this and said that the Nitish government gave special attention to tree plantation campaign and the results are very encouraging. He also said that the new Agriculture Road Map will give special attention to tree plantation in 15 percent of land in the next five years. There is a plan to plant 21 crore trees in the next five years. Also See
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