With an aim to provide respite to patients who face the brunt of the medical officers as they are refer to private medical halls, the Doon Hospital has decided to maintain the records of those medical officers who unnecessarily refer patients to private establishments.
After applauding the strictness in the hospital, the administration claimed that the referring of patients and prescribing branded medicines has lower down in the last few couple of months. Despite the fact that stern instructions have been regularly issued to medicos to prescribe generic medicines, long serpentine queue of patients suffering from life threatening diseases is easily noticeable at private chemist shops operating adjoining Doon Hospital.
Although hospital administration claimed that no medical officers refer serious patients to the private clinic operating in the length and breadth of the capital city, but the reality is something very different which has been claimed by the hospital
administration.
Well established sources revealed that the commission agents from the private chemist shops and ultrasound centres are easily seen operating in the hospital premises with an aim to take them to their private medical establishments, which not only causes financial loss to the government but also proving costly affair to the patients.
It is also equally important to mention here is that the number of patients visiting the chemistshops is maximum during Doon Hospital OPD hours and the flow of patients decreases manifold once the OPD closes at 2 pm. While talking to The Pioneer, Dr RS Aswal, Principal Medical Superintendent, Doon Hospital said that hospital administration is keeping an eye on those medical officers, who prescribe costly branded medicines
to patients. He said that circulars are sent to medicos on regular intervals to prescribe Government supplies to patients in order to avoid unnecessary financial burden to patients.
He cleared that strict departmental action would be taken against medical officers, if any patients complain register his complain. Dr Aswal said that medicos have been instructed regularly to
prescribe the Indian versions of some generic medicines for common ailments and
infections.