Birbhum's Suri Sadar hospital asked not to refer patients to nearby private diagnostic centres
Chief Medical Officer, Health, in Birbhum on Tuesday issued clear instructions to the Suri Sadar Hospital authorities asking them not to refer patients to nearby private diagnostic centres to get their pathological tests done.
The hospital has also been instructed to start various pathological tests at its diagnostic centre. It was learnt that various pathological tests and blood tests were not done at the diagnostic clinic of the hospital as a result of which the patients had been referred to various private diagnostic centres outside the hospital for their clinical tests.
The steps were taken by the district health officials to stop tout raj in the hospital.
The CMOH also issued a clear instruction to the hospital authorities not to allow any outsider in the hospital premises.
The hospital authorities were also asked to issue specific identity cards to the patients' relatives so that touts do not get free access to various wards of the hospital. It was earlier alleged that touts were playing an important role in the hospital and determining the private clinics where the patients would be referred to in order to get their tests done. The hospital was also asked to put in place adequate infrastructure so that all the blood tests and pathological tests could be done in the hospital itself.
In another incident, MJN Hospital in Cooch Behar has taken measures to check the entry of the outsiders following the instruction of the district's senior health officials. It may be mentioned here that a group D staff of the hospital was show-caused after some medical representatives of various companies were found inside various wards of the hospital.
The district administration had given a clear instruction that no medical representatives would be allowed inside the outpatient departments of the hospital.
Following this, the hospital authorities restricted the entry of the medical representatives to the hospital wards.