The largest public sector health service centre, Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) Hospital has seemingly decided to hand over all its problems to manpower, including even those ones, solution of which could easily be found with added willpower under the existing set-up.
Director Bl Sherwal said on Thursday that the hospital was to deploy medical officers, hospital managers and multipurpose workers within 10 days who would manage day-to-day affairs of the hospital more effectively and efficiently.
“We have asked for at least 10 medical officers and multipurpose workers each and five hospital managers with immediate effect who will take care of day to day affairs of the hospital in more efficient ways. Additional Chief Secretary (Health) has assured of providing these professionals at the earliest so that unfortunate events which took place in last three days, and also couple of weeks ago could be avoided on time,” said Sherwal.
Ironically, he admitted that the largest hospital with some 1,500 bed capacity kept reflecting lack of willpower-to-serve-the-patients issues at some level or other resulting in unfortunate events of likes of Gudia Sinha whose left kidney was operated in place of ailing right one, the local one year kid who died only because his father fell short of Rs 50 to arrange to get his MRI done, or the one on Wednesday in which a lady died only due to non-availability of blood on time despite having it in blood bank.
Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Sudhir Tripathi also admitted on Thursday that the hospital needed to revisit its willpower issue. “But I will also say that things are not that bad as has been presented in couple of cases. We have been working for a better environment in phased manner and we will get it sooner,” said Tripathi.
“Though it will not be right to say that all negligence at our end was the only reason for all those unfortunate events in recent days. But we definitely believe that there might be chances to improve our services, and we are doing the same.
We have constituted a committee to look into matter of yesterday’s death of the lady to find out if there was even slightest chance to provide blood to her little earlier and also to find out that was there any chance for the lady to survive if help could have reached to her little earlier,” said Sherwal where Dean and Blood Bank Incharge RK Srivastava, Medical Superintendent SK Choudhary and other officials were present.
He, however, added that centres running on PPP mode in RIMS were directed to conduct all tests completely free in case of accident and BPl patients.
“Even in case of APl patients, the Health Minister has directed to carry on tests in case of accidents and emergencies completely free, and the amount would be paid by the government to the company later,” said Sherwal.