Medical college docs slam DME for extending duty timings
2 years, 5 months ago

Medical college docs slam DME for extending duty timings

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: A circular issued by the Director of Medical Education drew sharp criticism from doctors within minutes of its release here on Friday. The circular stated that when health minister T. Harish Rao had conducted review meetings of institutions under DME, he noticed that many patients who were coming from far-off places needed to wait for one or two days even for completion of investigations. Meanwhile, the decision to extend timings of evening clinics has drawn criticism from Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association. Association president Dr Mahesh Kumar said that the circular was in violation of GO 816, which states that the duty hours of teaching faculty were from 9 am to 4 pm. He added that there were many other issues with medical colleges which needed to be resolved, such as shortage of specialists and faculty, unpaid allowances and stipends, lack of integrated laboratory information system to dispatch daily reports and lack of infrastructure for taking printouts.

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Government hospitals to run OPDs in evening too
1 year, 7 months ago

Government hospitals to run OPDs in evening too

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Jagan Mohan Reddy regime has taken a people-friendly decision of running out-patient services at all government teaching hospitals daily in the afternoon from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., in addition to the morning timings of 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. throughout the state with immediate effect. The evening clinics are being started to improve health care services in Andhra …

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