Orthopaedic implants to be procured through PGIMS MS
Sunit Dhawan
Tribune News Service
Rohtak, January 4
Following the refusal of Rohtak PGIMS’ orthopaedic surgeons to prescribe implants to patients, it has been decided that the office of the Medical Superintendent will be kept in the loop for the procurement of implants by patients/attendants.
A decision to this effect was taken at a recent meeting chaired by the PGIMS Director and attended by the Medical Superintendent, besides the head and other faculty members of the department of orthopaedics.
As per the minutes of the meeting, “It was decided that the department of orthopaedics will send the requirements not available in the hospital supply to the office of the Medical Superintendent, which will authorise the CMO/GDMO on duty to hand over the list of implants to the patient/attendant. The patient/attendant will be free to procure the same from the open market, including Amrit Store/Jan Aushadhi Kendra”.
Earlier, orthopaedic surgeons had decided not to prescribe implants as the authorities of Pt Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences (UHS), Rohtak, had refused to withdraw an undertaking submitted before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which stated that there is a nexus between doctors serving at the PGIMS and private medical stores supplying surgical implants.
The undertaking had been submitted in CWP No. 22440 of 2018 titled Narwal Medicos and Surgicals versus Director, PGIMS (Rohtak), and others.
The undertaking submitted by the UHS authorities states that the said doctors were not following the guidelines issued by the authorities concerned to curb this practice, adding that “such doctors, in connivance with such unscrupulous medical stores, were making hay at the cost of the patients and their relatives”.
