West Bengal CM urges SSKM Junior doctors to visit remote villages

Kolkata: In an effort to ensure adequate health services to the rural people in the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has urged Junior doctors of the Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGME&R) and SSKM hospital to visit remote villages to participate in health camps so that they could provide service to patients there. 

During the inauguration ceremony at the IPGME&R and SSKM Hospital, the Minister said the junior doctors should render their services to the poor patients in remote rural places for three to four days every week.

The proposal was made based on the performances of the junior doctors at the SSKM hospital. Following this, the health department is mulling sending the doctors to remote villages from SSKM hospital as well as other government teaching hospitals in the city.

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Congratulating the junior doctors, Banerjee told The Statesman, “they are doing excellent work here. I would propose that they go to remote villages for three to four days every week so that they could give service to patients there. They will get a special allowance if they visit rural health camps.”

On Monday, CM Mamata Banerjee inaugurated various new projects at the IPGMER-SSKM Hospital at a cost of Rs 43 crore.

The facilities include seminar-cum-classroom for the radiotherapy department, 10 ICU beds at the Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (IOHNS) department, Hyper acute stroke unit, 5 floors of the 10-storeyed OPD building, a gangway connecting the OPD building and the Emergency Ward at the SSKM among others, mp reports.

Banerjee said “SSKM is a centre of excellence. Senior people have brought glory to the hospital while junior doctors are feeling proud of the institution.”

Urging the SSKM Hospital authorities to depute senior doctors during night shifts at the hospital, she said “Senior doctors would have to stay on duty during night shifts at the hospital because emergency cases like heart attack, cerebral attack, severe injury caused by accident, etc happen mainly at night.”

Encouraging the junior doctor to always treat the patients with care, she said “serve patients with a smiling face because you are serving the society. There are many doctors, who always mint money from patients by forcing them to implant pacemakers or keeping dead bodies in the ICUs to make exorbitant treatment bills. But there are also many other doctors who do good work for patients and don’t think about money.”

Aside from the necessary projects launched by the minister at the hospital, more will be launched in the near future for the improvement of the healthcare sector in the city.

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