With a view to make the working of government health facilities better and more effective, Civil surgeon Dr Sangeeta Jain paid a surprise visit to the Sub-divisional Hospital in Kharar here today. She took a round of all the departments of the hospital and checked the availability of medicines and other essential equipment.
She had an interaction with doctors and enquired about test and treatment facilities and problems if any. The Civil Surgeon directed the Acting Senior Medical Officers (SMO) and doctors to provide best of the health facilities to the people and any kind of negligence in providing the medical facilities would not be tolerated at all.
She asked doctors to prescribe only generic and other medicines which were available in the hospital pharmacy and not make patients buy medicines from private chemist shops. She asked them to make the functioning of the hospital better and more effective with utmost dedication and hard work.
Dr Jain also stressed upon the effective implementation of various health programs like De-addiction, free medicines and tests, Aam Aadmi Clinics, Kayakalap etc so that people can get full benefit of the health schemes. Civil surgeon stressed on the need for doctors to behave well with patients and provide proper services so that their gesture would make them feel better. Dr Rahul Bhalla and other officials were also present.