Docs to face action for not residing in areas of posting

Tribune News Service

Solan, May 31

Health and Family Welfare Minister Kaul Singh Thakur has sought a CID report on doctors residing away from their areas of posting.

He said doctors deputed in border areas of the state were residing in Chandigarh, in violation of norms and action would be taken against them and they could be transferred to tribal areas.

He was today addressing mediapersons after inaugurating the office of the Drug Control Administration at Baddi established at a cost of Rs 2.3 crore.

The minister said online manufacturing licences would be granted from the office within 2 months as the process of data entry of all pharmaceutical units of the state was presently underway.

“We are planning to elevate the state’s industrial hub of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) into a bulk drug hub where large-scale pharmaceutical industries can invest,” Kaul Singh said.

He said the Centre should take the state government into confidence while conducting inspections and investigations for smooth conduct of the proceedings.

The state government will soon train male health workers as it failed to find the requisite staff during a recent recruitment drive. As against 112 vacancies, only 57 male health workers were recruited.

He asked the doctors to refrain from prescribing costly life-saving drugs from outside the hospital and said the state government had stocked at least 40 such drugs in each hospital.

The minister said state-of-the-art mortuaries would be set up in every 100 or above bedded hospital which would have the facility to preserve at least six bodies for 10 days.

A Food and Health Safety Officer should be placed at the BBN for effective implementation of all laws, he said.