Days after Punjab Health Minister Surjit Kumar Jiyani announced to pay surprise visits to all Government hospitals, Department’s Chief Parliamentary Secretary Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Thursday maintained that she has been assigned the duty to check all hospitals in the state.
Dr Sidhu maintained that she would be inspecting the hospitals along with the concerned legislator “rising above the politics”. “All hospitals would be inspected along with the concerned MlA rising above the politics and all problems would be solved,” she said. Firebrand leader maintained that she would be available in her office at Punjab Civil Secretariat on every Wednesday and Thursday from 9 am to 5 pm “to listen to the grievances of the doctors and nurses”. She added that Health Minister has made it clear that chief medical officers and the senior medical officers would be responsible for smooth functioning of hospitals and corruption won’t be tolerated at any level. Getting backing of the new Minister in its fight against the private doctors, Dr Sidhu issued a warning to the government doctors doing private practice asking them to put an end to the same.
She asked the Government doctors to prescribe free medicines available at hospital drug stores on priority. “Health Minister Surjit Kumar Jayani has assigned me the duty to check all the hospitals in the State,” she said. She further said that commissions in tests and ultra sounds, among others, should be stopped immediately and if anybody found guilty would not be spared. Dr Sidhu also made it clear that dress code is mandatory for doctors and nurses and designation name badges should be ensured on dresses. list of all free medicines, being supplied, should be put on the notice board and duty chart of doctors also, she added.