Continuing his inspection spree, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday visited a government-run hospital in north-west Delhi and directed officials to take action after he found an alleged violation in prescription norms by a doctor.
Kejriwal, accompanied by Health Minister Satyendar Jain, went to several wards of Maharishi Valmiki hospital in Bawana area and talked to patients there.
In a rather unusual move during the inspection, Kejriwal took prescription card of a person present near a medicine counter and enquired about it, only to be told by the staff manning it that "the medicine prescribed by the doctor was not available".
When Kejriwal further enquired about it, the staff told him that, "the medicine was not available as it was not part of the inventory list", AAP officials said.
Kejriwal then sought to know from the medical superintendent of the 150-bed hospital as to why the medicine was prescribed if it was not in the list.
The Chief Minister has directed officials to take action after finding this case, they said.
As per a recent government directive, only medicines listed in the inventory approved by the Delhi government are to be prescribed by doctors at government hospitals.
Kejriwal's visit caught the doctors and officials by surprise even as the people approached him with their problems. Some were seen taking photos with him. On June 2, he paid a surprise visit to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital in west Delhi's Hari Nagar area to take stock of the situation there.
Prior to that, he had inspected the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital on May 25, where he had found "several deficiencies" and wrote to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal to sought removal of the medical superintendent of the hospital.