Monday, November 24, 2014

External check on hospitals

By Our Staff Correspondent FAISALABAD: The Punjab government has asked district coordination officers across the province to monitor emergencies of all hospitals daily.

Sources told Dawn the death of children at DHQ Hospital, Sargodha, had alerted the government to keep an eye on the affairs of the hospital emergencies that was only possible through external monitoring. They said instead of resolving the issues effectively by taking the government on board, the administration of hospitals had been doing otherwise and sending `all okay` reports to the health department.

Owing to the deaths of children at the Sargodha hospital, sources said complaints regarding performance of the hospital administration were increasing.

They said finding solution to the issue, the government had asked DCOs to effectively monitor emergencies of hospitals.

Now the DCOs will allot hospitals to assistant commissioners and district officers coordination (DOC).

The Punjab government is probing the issue of children deaths at the Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, and DHQ Hospital, Sargodha.

More than 2200 children breathed their last at the Allied hospital during last 10 months and about two dozen at the Sargodha Hospital recently.

Faisalabad DCO Noorul Amen Mengal told Dawn that a mechanism had been evolved to monitor the emergencies of all state-run hospitals of Faisalabad on a daily basis.

He said DOC and all ACs had been assigned hospitals to monitor attendance of staff and doctors, availability of free medicines and public complaints. He said monitoring reports would be submitted to the health secretary daily.

The DCO said he along with DOC would monitor the tertiary hospitals including Allied and the DHQ on a rotation basis.

The AC city will monitor General Hospital, Samanabad and Ghulam Mohammad Abad Hospital will be the responsibility of the AC Saddar.

Besides, town ACs will monitor their respective tehsil headquarters hospitals.

Courtesy: Dawn

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