Patna, July 4: The state-run hospitals will soon have set treatment protocols for diseases afflicting a large chunk of population in various regions.

The nine-member special task force constituted recently by the state health department to study and decipher mysterious brain fever and acute encephalitis syndrome would develop the protocols. It would prescribe the treatment procedure for ailments like chikungunya, dengue, kala azar and Japanese encephalitis.

The protocols would be first sent to medical college hospitals, the tertiary care centres where most of the serious patients are admitted. Later, the guidelines will be sent to all district, sub-division and block-level government hospitals.

The government is planning to make the task force, constituted a fortnight back, the state’s advisory committee on health. It will suggest ways to manage and treat severe diseases in an uniform and regulated manner.

“We had constituted the task force for encephalitis but later thought to expand its purview. It has been seen that almost every year some major disease hits some part of state and a large chunk of population is affected. In the absence of uniformity in treatment and its guidelines, doctors face major problems and patients bear the brunt. We have therefore decided to devise a way out,” said principal secretary of health Vyasji.

The members of the task force include senior paediatricians Dr Sanjata Roy Chaudhary, Dr S.P. Srivastava, Dr Nigam Prakash, Dr A.K. Thakur apart from Dr S.N. Arya, AIIMS-Patna director Dr G.K. Singh and health directorate chief Dr Surendra Kumar.