A notification would be issued shortly to recruit 666 doctors in under the A.P. Vaidya Vidhana Parishad, Minister for Health Kamineni Srinivas asserted on Thursday.
Addressing the media after a meeting with heads of departments in Kurnool General Hospital, he said a circular was issued directing doctors to write the generic names of medicines in capital letters and stop prescribing branded medicines.
All generic medicines were made available in the generic medical shops on the hospital premises, and there was no shortage of medicines, he said.
Stating that he was receiving complaints on the absence of doctors in emergency wards, the Minister told them to be present during duty hours.
A tertiary cancer institute would be built with ₹120 crore in Kurnool and land was allotted for it, he said.
Dr. Srinivas told the executive engineer and the contractor to complete work on the new gynaecology block being constructed at an estimated cost of ₹22 crore in a month and warned of keeping the bill pending if work was delayed. To check power-related problems, the decades-old electrical wires and jumpers would be replaced by underground cables, he said.
The Health Minister asked doctors to mark their attendance under the biometric mode, and said he too was doing so.
He told hospital Superintendent J. Veeraswamy to open more counters for out-patients. He told him to ensure that medical tests and procedures were not delayed . He also told him to clear the transport bills of NTR Vaidya Seva patients on the day of their discharge.
Pension for kidney patients
Dr. Srinivas inaugurated a dialysis centre that was already functioning and said the government would pay a monthly pension of ₹2,500 to each dialysis patient below the poverty line.
Promotions delayed in the general medicine department due to a court case would be given soon as the case had been cleared.
The DMHO would be asked to verify the permission of all private hospitals and clinics in the wake of seizure of two hospitals run by an engineering student posing as a doctor, he said.
A ‘Maha Prasthanam’ ambulance would be provided for the Kurnool hospital to shift the bodies of patients to their villages in Kurnool and adjoining districts.
A scientific sanitation policy was evolved to check rodents and pests on government hospital premises. He flagged off two garbage compactor vehicles of the Kurnool Municipal Corporation.
MLA S.V. Mohan Reddy, Director of Medical Education Subba Rao, Kurnool Medical College principal G. Ramprasad, Head of Cardiology P. Chandrasekhar, and Civil Surgeon RMO Y. Srinivasulu took part.