State to evaluate doctors' work

MALDA,( India) Dec. 21 — The Communist ruling state government will evaluate the performance of doctors on the basis of their attendance in the Operation Theater in government hospitals, the health minister, Dr Surya Kanta Mishra, said today. Inaugurating a private nursing home at English Bazaar today, Dr Mishra said: “We will not tolerate cases where a doctor is found to have attended OT for 35 days in hospital out of 365 days and the same doctor is seen to be attending to cases more than twice a day at private nursing homes”. “Government doctors will have to answer to their higher authorities about his contribution to public health services’’, he announced. The district officials have also been informed of the system of evaluation of a government doctor’s performance at a regional meeting of four districts held in Malda today, he disclosed. The hospital doctors will prescribe medicine with its genetic name and not in the name of a company in cases where it is out of stock in the hospital, he told government doctors present at the inauguration programme today. The health minister also said: “The government is responsible for providing health services to all as a fundamental right. We cannot leave it depending on the ‘open market’ and cannot tell the people to buy health services from them but unfortunately we are doing it for various reasons”. — SNS

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