The patients visiting the district hospital will now be able to avail the benefit of an elevator. The elevator of the hospital which was defunct for a long time was started in presence of the Collector Thakur Ram Singh on Tuesday. Singh conducted inspection of the District Hospital along with other officers of the health department.
He inspected different wards and interacted with the patients and their attendants and noticed that some patients were issued slips to purchase branded medicines from outside the hospital. Singh asked the doctors to prescribe only those medicines which are available in the hospital. In case any medicine is out of stock, the hospital should approach the administration to procure it.
The Collector took stock of the jaundice patients admitted in the hospital and asked the doctors for proper medication of these patients. About 20 jaundice patients were admitted in the hospital in recent days out of which 9 have been discharged after treatment while 11 are still under treatment. In gynaecology department, the collector noticed good number of patients. He asked the hospital authorities to run two OPDs in the department for the convenience of the patients who have to wait for a long time.
In the nutrition rehabilitation centre, the collector expressed satisfaction over treatment provided to the malnourished children and asked the hospital authorities to bring maximum malnourished children to the rehabilitation centre for treatment. He was dissatisfied by mismanagement in parking of the vehicles and asked the authorities to float a tender for managing parking in the hospital. He directed the PWD officers for regular maintenance of the elevator.