To increase coordination between the health and medical education departments for smooth functioning of the associated hospital of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC), the State Government has constituted a committee comprising of the Principal GDMC, Director General (DG) health services and Additional Secretary medical health. The Principal Secretary would preside over the meeting of the committee which would be held once in a week.
Informing about the decision, the State health Minister Surendra Singh Negi told the media persons on Monday that the decision is being taken to improve coordination between the departments and remove day to day operational problems of the biggest hospital of the State.
The Minister inspected the hospital and took a meeting whihc was attended by the Principal GDMC Pradeep Bharati Gupta, Director General (DG) Health Services Dr Kusum Narriyal, Director Medical education Dr Ashutosh Sayana and Medical Superintendent Dr KK Tamta.
The Minister accepted that problems cropped up in the functioning of the hospital after it was converted to medical college hospital. He said that the number of the beds in the hospital have also reduced as more space between beds is needed in a medical college hospital and to remove this problem a decision to add 120 beds in the Gandhi Centenary Eye hospital is taken.
Negi said that the doctors of the medical college hospital should not refer cases as it is now a referral centre. He asserted that there is no dearth of medicines and other equipment in the hospital now as the health directorate has been directed to continue providing these things to the hospital as before.
The Minister said that the Doon hospital campus would again become district hospital once a modern 750 bed hospital is set up in Patel Nagar. “ We have earmarked a plot of about 150 Bighas of land near the academic and administrative blocks of the Medical college and the hospital would be developed there,’’ he said.