Berhampur: Ganjam collector Vijay Amruta Kulange Wednesday paid a surprise visit to the district headquarters hospital (DHH) and City Hospital in Berhampur to take stock of the implementation progress of state government’s ‘Mo Sarkar’ (My Government) initiative.
Kulange also enquired about the health condition of the people admitted to these hospitals during the visit.
The collector expressed displeasure over the service quality at the DHH since some of the doctors here prescribed medicines that are not available in the Niramaya store. The patients here are indirectly forced to buy it from outside stores.
Kulange advised the patients to avoid agents and middlemen in the hospital premises. He also suggested the hospital authorities to take action against such persons. Besides, he urged the doctors to focus on patients who come from distant places for checkups and write them free ‘Niramaya scheme’ medicines in every possible case.
The collector then reached City Hospital at about noon and emphasised on opening up of more drug distribution centres and pathology testing centres in the medical college and hospital. Further, the collector interacted with the patients pertaining to the issues they face at the hospital and the quality of services offered there.
It may be mentioned here that in a bid to make governance more people-centric, the state government has launched the ‘Mo Sarkar’ initiative under which ministers would need to speak to citizens to seek feedback on the kind of response they get during their visits to police stations and hospitals.
PNN