The Pauri District health management committee’s governing body meeting was presided over by district magistrate Chandra Shekhar Bhatt at the Collectorate on Monday with the proposed budgets of Rs 13937500 being approved for district hospital and Rs 4995000 for the district women’s hospital for 2014-15.
With the consent of the committee, the district magistrate instructed the Nayab Tehsildar and revenue sub inspector to identify the land of district hospital with the help of hospital authorities to remove the illegal occupants from the hospital’s land.
To redress the problems of shortage of doctors, Bhatt directed officers to send a reminder to Director General of Health. The DM also sanctioned an increase in daily allowance from Rs 200 to Rs 250 on the recommendation of the members of committee.
He further instructed the hospital authorities to ensure that proper arrangements are made for the patients.
No patient should be forced to purchase medicines from the open market, he said, while stressing that the medicine required should be provided by the hospitals. In case of non availability of the medicine in the hospital, the patients should be advised to purchase medicines from outside the hospital.
The hospital should prepare proposal for the minor construction works under the district plan, said Bhatt, while according permission to construct room for the generic medicines.
The food being supplied to patients admitted in hospital should be of proper quality and any complaint regarding the quality of food in the hospital will be taken seriously, he said. The DM also instructed officials concerned to ensure that the desired level of sanitation is also maintained in the hospitals.
The Srinagar municipal council chairman Bipin Maithani, chief treasury officer BP Kandpal, chief medical officer Dr AK Singh, Member of Parliamentary representative Narendra Negi, MlA representative Virendra Singh and Bhagat Singh along with officers of the Pauri district hospital, district women’s hospital, joint hospital Kotdwar and Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali base hospital Srikot (Srinagar) were also among those present in the meeting.