Nagpur : Maharashtra’s Medical Education Department has decided to come up with independent unit at Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) in Maharashtra for treating patients approaching hospital for want of immediate attention. This unit would be called EMS (Emergency Medical Service). It will be run on pilot basis at five cities in the State – Nagpur, Mumbai, Pune, Aurangabad and Dhule.
Elaborating on this issue, Maharashtra Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan informed, “There is a staff of 540 belonging to Public Health Department. Most of them do not have work assigned from both the departments- Medical Education and Public Health. So, we will give them work of handling EMS. The EMS will have separate wards, separate Intensive Care Unit (ICU), separate diagnostic facilities in the unit itself. This EMS will take care of the patients who need emergency attention. It will be run on pilot basis. If we succeed then it will be extended to other city GMCs too.”
Action on HIMS, to be replaced
Mahajan is aware about HIMS’s connection with OPD registration so he had given the work of checking HIMS’s feasibility to Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). The TISS expressed dissatisfaction over the functioning of HIMS. There are huge losses due to HIMS that swallowed up a lot of money. The investigation is underway and present Government is likely to take action against HIMS. “We will be re-tendering the work. It will be handed over to the agency selected by our panel. We will streamline the system so that neither patients nor our staff suffers,” stated firm Mahajan.
Coupon system to be introduced
A coupon system will be brought where people would pay the money and get the coupon with a number on it. The person could sit on the chair arranged near the OPD registration counter. The number of the patient written on his or her coupon would be displayed on the digital board and patient would collect the card that would direct him or her towards the respective department.
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