Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday announced prizes, called Chief Minister’s Award, of Rs 10 lakh and Rs 5 lakh for performing doctors and other health employees, respectively, under the 5T initiative of the State Government.
The Award will be given to 10 doctors and health personnel at a State-level programme. A selection committee comprising experts in the field would choose ten doctors and other staffs.
The CM also announced to provide a Career Award to employees who would be found to have worked in the sector dedicatedly for 25 years. They will be promoted to the next higher rank on the day of superannuation.
Medical professionals, staff and even security personnel working in hospitals will get one month’s salary as a bonus if they have acquired the National Quality Accreditation Standard certificate. One month’s salary will be given to them in the next financial year.
Patnaik also made other announcements.
The Kayakalp Certificate holders will get half a month’s salary as a bonus for their service to the patients. Doctors, staff and security personnel of the hospitals are eligible for such benefit. The institutions having Lakshya Certificate will enable its employees to get half a month’s salary as bonus on a year-end. They will get the cash benefit from the next fiscal year.
Five institutions will get awards based on the feedback of patients. The doctors and employees of these institutions will get a tri-monthly certificate and the employees will receive TLC to have foreign trips. The contractual workers will also be sent abroad for professional training. The Government will also provide incentives to the teams which have done exemplary work in maternity and surgery-related treatment.
These awards are meant to help health institutes to achieve National Level Quality Accreditation, informed an official release.
Based on the 3rd set of visit reports of Mo Sarkar teams in the five districts, the CM announced that infrastructures of DHHs in Sundargarh, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanh would be met from District Minister Fund.
While Rs 10 lakh will be given to both Sundargarh and Mayurbhanj DHHs for promotion of blood donation camps; Sundargarh unit will get two ambulances and as many Maha-Prayan vehicles and Mayurbhanj to get Rs 15 lakh from the CMRF for patient welfare and innovation.
The Rourkela Government Hospital (RGC)’s bed strength would be increased to 400 and Rs l5 lakh from the CMRF would be given to its Rogi Kalyan Samiti for patient welfare and innovation. Besides, Rs 10 lakh will be given SP Rourkela for promotion of blood donation camps.