The State Government has decided to make the office of the newly-formed Odisha State Medical Corporation (OSMC) a paperless establishment as its entire office work would be done through e-governance by a small-sized staff.
This was discussed at length at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Secretary JK Mohapatra at the State Secretariat here on Friday.
It was also decided that the OSMC would keep at the godowns in its premises the medicine stocks earmarked for the three Government medical colleges and hospitals, the Institute of Mental Health, the Acharya Harihar Cancer Research Institute, the Capital Hospital, the Rourkela Government Hospital, the 30 District Headquarters Hospitals, the Community Health Centres (CHCs) and the Primary Health Centres (PHCs).
The corporation would be in charge of providing medicines free of cost to the patients in all Government hospitals.
“The corporation, formed in line with the pattern adopted by the Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan Governments, will have its new office building, the construction of which would be completed by the end of May this year,” Health and Family Welfare Secretary Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra told reporters after the meeting.
He said the Government has formed a board of the corporation and appointed former Tamil Nadu Health Secretary R Purnalingam as its Director as he had played a major role in the success of the corporation of Tamil Nadu.
Mohapatra also informed that selection of the staff for the corporation is underway.Among others, Development Commissioner I Srinivas, Managing Director of the corporation Rupa Mishra and senior officials of the concerned departments were present at the meeting.