Health and Family Welfare Minister Damodar Rout on Thursday asked the Superintendents, Principals and all the Heads of the Departments (HODs) of three Government-run Medical Colleges and Hospitals to report the his department on the requirements for streamlining treatment facilities and infrastructural development.
“Fund is not a constraint now. The Government is willing to do whatever is necessary for the betterment of these medical colleges thereby facilitating good medical service to the patients,” said the Minister while presiding over a meeting of Superintendents, Principals and Heads of the Departments (HODs) of SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, MKCG Medical College and Hospital, Brahmapur and VSS Medical College and Hospital, Burla along with senior Health Department officials here.
Worried over the private practice of doctors of the three Government-run medical colleges in the State, the Minister too asked the authorities to suggest remedial measures to the Government.
The Minister informed that efforts are being taken to fill up the vacant 40 per cent posts in the rank of professors, associate professors and assistant professors in these hospitals. The meeting also decided to revive the out patent door (OPD) of the VSS Medical College and Hospital, Burla which was opened at the Sambalpur district headquarters hospital a few years ago.