Haryana Health Min pays surprise visit to Gurgaon hospital

Anil Vij on Friday paid a surprise visit to General Hospital, Gurgaon and found several irregularities.He also interacted with the patients admitted to the hospital and enquired about the medicines being given to the patients.The Minister, who also interacted with the mediapersons said that only two years ago this hospital had been renovated at a cost of `14 crore, but its ceiling was leaking and it could fall any moment. Also, the Public Works (Building and Roads) Department has already declared one of the buildings of the hospital as unsafe. He recommended inquiry into the works done for renovation of the hospital.

In reply to a question, he said that the sanitation was almost satisfactory. He said that the doctors were prescribing medicines which were available outside the hospital and the patients were not getting medicines from the hospital. He informed that process has been initiated to fill up 761 posts of doctors so as to meet their shortage. He said that after this recruitment there would be no shortage of doctors in any hospital. He said that a website was being prepared where the owners of ultrasound centres would be able to fill the mandatory forms on line under the PNDT Act.