Development Commissioner cum Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Arun Kumar Singh visited Sheikh Bikhari Medical College and Hospital and went to all the departments and wards of the hospital. He was in the hospital for 8 hours. During the visit, the health secretary gave many directions and suggestions for improvement to the SBMCH management.
After the visit the health secretary said that the hospital must be equipped with all means of treatment. The doctors should not write the medicine to be purchased from the market. They must prescribe the generic lower cost medicine to the patients and it should be available in the store of the hospital.
The health secretary also visited every department of the medical college. He told the college principal not to compromise with the quality of the construction work, which is going on in the campus of the medical college.
The health secretary visited the OPD and dermatology department of the hospital. He saw there were so many doctors sitting together. On this he scolded the management of the hospital.
He visited the ICU, operation theatre, microbiology, central library, ENT department and wards of the hospital. He has suggested to the management of the hospital to improve the infrastructural facilities in the hospital.
He has also given direction to the hospital management to suspend such doctors, who are generally found absent from duty. He suggested removing the obstacles in the eye department.
Regarding the medical college he said that all the departments of the college must fulfil basic needs of study. The CCTV in the college must work 24x7 in the campus and in the departments.
On the issue of the visit of the health secretary, Sadar MLA Manish Jaiswal said that it was not an inspection in true sense. It was only an eye wash. The secretary has not concentrated on the real issues of the hospital. He said that how can a patient hope for better treatment where 99 per cent of doctors are always found to be absent.