GANGTOK, 10 July: A surprise visit to the Mangan District Hospital was paid by Health Minister, DN Takarpa, on Saturday. The Minister was also accompanied by the Health Secretary, Dr Kumar Bhandari, and Principal Director, Dr RL Sharma along with a team of engineers led by the Divisional Engineer of the department.
During the visit, the Minister, who was accompanied by the area MLA, Tshering Wangdi Lepcha, carried out a thorough inspection. He also visited the in-patient and out-patient departments, kitchen, toilets, medical stores and other departments of the hospital.
The Chief Medical Officer and other staff of the hospital were found on duty despite the day being a holiday, inform an official accompanying the team.
The Minister directed the CMO to keep the floors, walls and window panes clean and dry and also passed direction to immediately replace the broken window panes and put up the signboards wherever required and also directed the repairing tiles in the toilets etc.
Many important decisions were also taken on the spot and the Minister directed that follow-up action be completed by 01 August.
These decisions includes, out-sourcing of the patient diet served in the hospital by 01 August, posting of a gyanceacologist and part time posting of ENT, pediatrician and other specialists to the hospital.
The proposal of the hospital to take up works to repair seepage of walls and bathrooms by the engineering cell were directed to be placed by 01 August and another proposal for repainting of the roof should also reach to the government that date, it was directed.
The Minister also directed the CMO to start a waste disposal system by making arrangements with the Mangan Nagar Panchayat immediately and also directed the CMO to work out ways to improve the health care worker’s attitude in providing required service to the people.
The visit also noted the shortage of staff at the hospital and the management to directed immediately place a proposal for the posting of short officials and staff in the hospital.
The management was also directed to submit a proposal for the installment of a generator at the hospital.
On the way back, the Minister’s team also visited the Dikchu PHC and to be found the PHC to be infrastructurally adequate and properly cleaned, it is informed.
Oh my God. Government Doctors on duty on sunday.
ReplyDeleteThis was purely a pre planned activity of the Health Minister to save face after the Chief Minister visited and exposed the state of Singtam Hospital.
Health Minister Saab please do not mislead our Chief minister. This kind of pre planned activity will not benifit the public as after you are gone it would be pack up and go for the Doctors.
Please place the facts and place corrective measures.
Everyone in sikkim knows the work culture of the government employees on Sundays and Holidays. So do not fool People.
As a saint-social worker I visited mangan and lachen..but when I saw the condition of govt dispensory at lachen was much sad. The alone nurse (may be her name hema or heema) was working much hard alone ..and when I asked her for residence quarter of staff she ignored the question means directly lack of residences for staff..met some more people..nice people and much cultured to welcome any visitor though..just the misiter is nt to look after the infra structure he should also see the human problems of his government workers too..as a youth politician-social-spiritual worker at state/center i have visited nearly all sections of humanity and felt that any leader /govtt is considered to be best when their affection towards their own worker is humanistic...just sa hint rest all can understand!!
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