He also highlighted the fact that Mohalla Clinics of Delhi government are treating 95 percent of patients and only five percent need to be referred to big hospitals which have significantly minimised burden on big hospitals.
“We are discussing the issue with hospitals in the city for finalising an earlier date for the implementation of the scheme and trying to solve all the challenges of the stakeholders involved in the execution of the insurance scheme,” said Jain.
The minister made these announcements while addressing Specialty Conference 2016 organised by Delhi Medical Association. Mentioning of the challenges in implementation of the insurance scheme, Jain stated that in the negotiation between the hospitals and the government, the basic point put forward by the hospitals was recovery of some form of cost. “In our discussion, the authorities of city hospitals stated that suppose the treatment to the accident victim takes about Rs. 2 lakh the hospital should at least recover about Rs.50, 000,” he added.
“We had expected that Mohalla Clinics will treat around 80 percent patients and refer 20 percent to big hospitals. The result is beyond expectations as they treat 95 percent of patients in the area,” informed Jain. He also spoke of the measures that can be taken to tackle challenges of dengue crisis, violence against the doctors and the reformation of medical education. “Dengue is more hyped in media than other diseases. If a person died of any other disease it’s not the issue but a death due to dengue becomes scary in the city,” said Jain asking doctors to be more sensitive. “From August 20, we will enroll 500 city schools in dengue awareness programme,” he informed.
Jain also raised the issue of violence against doctors and advised of the junior doctors especially working in the night to be tactful in their approach towards dealing with the patients. Jain also advocated that in the last one and a half years there have been around 15 times when there has been a strike because of the violence against doctors there must be a presence of senior doctor too at the night.
“A senior doctors is more capable of convincing and passifying the crowed than junior doctors. I request senior doctors to be on duty in night hours on rotation basis to deal with the patient’s relatives,” he suggested. He also crticised Medical Council of India, and suggested that the present education system of medical professionals needs to be changed.
“There are around 52,000 MBBS seats in the country while only 15,000 to 20,000 PG seats are available. They force the doctors to pay from Rs 1 crore to Rs 5 crore for PG degrees. This creates huge pressure of young doctors which adversely affect their performance and forced them to earn money at any cost,” he added.