Pauri District Magistrate Chandra Sekhar Bhatt has given directives that medical and health services be rightly provided to the people in the State-run hospitals. He said he has given his nod to have the daily wages for the contractual as well as the regular employees of the hospital increased while presiding over a meeting of the medical management committee held in the collectorate on Friday. Bhatt also emphasised on the quality of the meals meant for the indoor patients in the hospitals. If there is any complaint regarding this, action would be taken after complaints are received, he averred.
Chief Medical Superintendent, District Hospital and secretary, district management committee Dr SD Uniyal presented the budget for Pauri District Hospital and Women Hospital in course of the meeting. The committee approved budget of Rs1 crore 8 lakhs 70 thousand for Pauri District Hospital and Rs45 lakhs for Pauri Women Hospital. Issues related to District Hospital and Women Hospital, Joint Hospital Kotdwar and Base Hospital Srikot (Srinagar) came up during the meeting. The progress regarding implementation of the proposals passed in the last proceeding was also discussed.
Several proposals related to a wall to be built in the main gate, supply of 24- hour water supply in the labour room, arranging glass for the partition of the labour room to provide privacy to the pregnant and gynecology patients and providing heat pillar at the P.N.C wards came up before the committee. Bhatt is said to have asked for immediate estimation of these proposals.
Bhatt also said medicines must be provided to the patients from the hospitals themselves. There might be exception only in emergency cases. He directed all concerned to provide meals to the patients according to the prescribed menu. Importance should be given on sanitation and cleanliness of the hospital premises, he stressed.