Stop penalising doctors for not achieving fixed targets, TNGDA sees red
Chennai: After the implementation of the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme (CMCHIS), the Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association (TNGDA) has requested the Health department to ensure that doctors are not penalized for failing to achieve targets fixed by the CMCHIS scheme.
K. Senthil, the association's president, and N. Ravishankar, its general secretary, released a statement after the State executive committee meeting last week outlining a number of demands.
Nearly 20% of patients who frequent government hospitals received care through CMCHIS. The association stated that it is improper to hold State-level review meetings that are only focused on CMCHIS, to assign targets for doctors, and to threaten those who do not fulfill those targets with transfer and penalty.
The World Health Organisation has clearly instructed for almost 25 years now that the word “target” should not be used even for family welfare goals. The association has requested the department to refrain from taking any steps against the doctors, who have more important non-CMCHIS-related duties, reports The Hindu.
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