Health secretary inspects MGM Hospital, orders streamlining for facilities

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur, June 23 : Health secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni  inspected  of MGM Medical College and Hospital in Sakchi and monitored the functioning of different departments.

He instructed the hospital superintendent Dr Arun Kumar to ensure that all doctors attending duties at OPD and in emergency should have their name plates put up at suitable places which is visible for the patients and their attendants. He also asked the hospital administration to ensure that all doctors attend their duty at OPD and emergency and took serious note of absence of two doctors.

�During the inspection deputy commissioner several instructions were given and we have already started working on the directive and would try to put the name plates bearing names of doctors on duty at the OPD and emergency within this week only,� said an official .

Incidentally, the OPD functions from  9 am � 1 pm and from 4 pm � 6pm daily (barring Sunday) at the hospital. On Sunday, the OPDs are closed and only emergency functions at the hospital.

Secretary during the three hour-long inspection also visited medicine and orthopaedic wards and interacted with patients and took feedbacks about the treatment and foods served at the wards.  

Kulkarni also held a meeting with the hospital administration about shortcomings in the hospital and steps taken to overcome it.

“We will be acting on his directives and those doctors found absent have been asked to explain their position,� said Dr Kumar.

The MGMCH is a government hospital with the facility of 540 beds. Everyday around 1000 patients come here for treatment. Several times parts of ceiling and windows have collapsed four times in the government hospital. Due to lack of repair work and attention of the authorities concerned.