Service of non-attending physicians to be terminated in Uttarakhand hospitals

News Bharati    07-Jan-2020 13:05:27 PM
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Dehradun, January 7: Regular accounting personnel will be posted in the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) offices and hospitals of districts to streamline accounting and financial matters in health services. In this regard, those personnel below 45 years of age will be trained in the department, who is currently working as accounting clerks. With this, the Director-General of Health has also given instructions to departmental officers to terminate the service of doctors who have been absent for a long time and to deploy new doctors in their place. Said that disciplinary action should also be taken against officers and employees who have been absent for more than fifteen days without notice / unauthorized. Notices should be sent immediately to such personnel.


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Director-General of Health, Dr. Amita Upreti directed the departmental officers to nominate personnel with prescribed qualifications for training. While meeting with the Chief Medical Officers of Districts, Chief Medical Superintendents of Government Hospitals, Chief Medical Superintendents and Departmental Officers, the Director-General of Health reviewed the progress of health services in the state.

He said that in order to strengthen the administrative structure of health services, now accounts and financial matters will also be streamlined in the department. For this, accounts personnel will be deployed in hospitals and CMO offices. The Director-General of Health said that all CMOs, CMS and Drawing Distribution Officers are being prepared to be trained in financial and accounting rules by the Uttarakhand Health System Development Project.

He said that hospitals should be monitored regularly to know the ground reality of health services. He has also given instructions to provide information on bonded doctors posted in hospitals every month. Said CMO to visit hospitals regularly and monitor food, sanitation etc. given to patients inwards. Chief medical officers of all the districts, CMS of hospitals, PMS and other departmental officers were also present in the meeting.

State government hospitals will now operate according to IPHS standards. Director-General of Health, Dr. Amita Upreti, has asked all hospitals to prepare necessary action plans and send them to the Directorate General. On this basis, doctors and paramedical staff can be deployed in hospitals.