Prescribing drugs available outside govt hospital: FIR ordered against UP Doctor
In a stringent view, the DM further directed Dr BN Jaiswal, Chief Medical Officer(CMO) to initiate a probe against the medical store and warned the doctors not to force patients to buy medicine from outside the hospital, adding that violating the aforesaid would draw strict actions.
Bahraich: A government doctor posted at Payagpur Community Health Centre (CHC) is in a soup as Shambhu Kumar, District Magistrate (DM) ordered FIR against the medical practitioner for allegedly prescribing medicines to patients to be brought from the market which otherwise should have been mandatorily provided in the hospital itself.
In a stringent view, the DM further directed Dr B N Jaiswal, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to initiate a probe against the medical store and warned the doctors not to force patients to buy medicine from outside the hospital, adding that violating the aforesaid would draw strict actions.
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