Malkangiri: Mukhyamantri Vayu Swasthya Seva (Air Health Services) was started in the Malkangiri district of Odisha today.
A five-member team of select super specialists in Urology, Lap Surgery, Hepatology, Cardiology and Anesthesia from Bhubaneswar and Cuttack arrived at the district headquarters hospital here today on a two-day visit.
During their stay here these super specialists will treat pre-assessed cases.
The team arrived by air at Jeypore and then moved by road to Malkangiri.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had in December last year launched Mukhyamantri Vayu Swasthya Seva at the Biju Patnaik International Airport here to take health services to people of remote and backward areas of the State.
The service has been designed for the people of four districts of Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Kalahandi, and Nuapada in the first phase.
Neurologists, nephrologists, cardiologists from medical colleges and corporate hospitals, mainly in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, are flown to the four district headquarters hospitals, where diagnostic facilities and operation theatres, have been created keeping in mind the specialized care.
