National Health Mission Jammu & Kashmir, in a step towards the better health care services, has launched the Bio-Medical Equipment Waste Management Programme (BMEWMP) in the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.<br />'' <br />'' The programme was launched by Financial Commissioner Health and Medical Education, Atal Dulloo yesterday evening. Mr.Duloo said that the biomedical equipment management was the need of the hour to improve the patient care facilities in the health care institutions. Highlighting the objectives of the program, he said that the program is designed in a way that the equipments in the district level health care facility will have an uptime of 95%, in sub-district hospital 90% and in PHC 80%.<br />''<br />''Duloo said the service provider is responsible for mapping the entire inventory of equipment in healthcare facilities adding the service provider has to repair the faulty equipment in all the health care institutes of J&K and Ladakh within 4 months and said that the program is valid for 5 years.<br />