Minister’s surprise visit to Fatehgarh Sahib hospital

Health Minister Dr Balbir Singh today conducted a surprise checking at the district hospital.

He inspected various departments, including eye, bone, gynaecology, OPD, medicine and surgery, and interacted with the patients and took stock of the health facilities being provided to them.

Seeing long queues of patients at the registration counter, he directed SMO Dr KD Singh to ensure that registration begins at 8.30 am, half an hour before the hospital OPDs open. He warned the doctors and staff that negligence in health services or dereliction of duty will not be tolerated. He issued directions to make patients aware of ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account), so that they could take advantage of online registration.

The minister instructed Civil Surgeon Dr Davinderjit Kaur to make sure doctors prescribed medicines available at the hospital. He also said it should be ensured that all laboratory tests, X-rays, ultrasounds, etc, were conducted in the hospital itself.