The Andhra Pradesh state government is now focusing on the performance of the government hospitals in the state to facilitate giving access to quality medical care to the poor and common people. For this purpose it has formulated a 30-day Action Plan to improve performance of the government hospitals in the state and create a favourable environment.
Minister for Medical, Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education Y Satya Kumar Yadav said the government has taken steps to improve services to the out-patients and sanitation in the hospitals. He said that the government is keen to render super speciality services in government hospitals.
He expressed confidence that government hospitals are capable of providing quality surgeries like organ transplantation, for which people need not opt only for corporate hospitals. The Minister said the government will render cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, neuro surgery, urology, cancer care and endocrinology services besides performing kidney and heart transplant surgeries.
To meet such requirements, the Minister assured that the infrastructure will be developed in all Government General Hospitals. Based on the feedback available on the performance of the government hospitals, he said, the government has prepared short term, medium term and long-term plans to improve performance of the Government General Hospitals.
Sathya Kumar Yadav said as part of short term plans, they will take steps to keep the government hospital premises and toilets clean and set up boards and information about various departments. He said the government will assess the requirements of the nurses and lab technicians and fill the vacancies and strengthen the services at the reception at the GGHs.
Moreover, he said steps will be taken to speed up the registration process at the counters and take measures to give blood test reports, other test reports before 2 pm to the patients. He said they will make sure to render OP services from 2 pm to 4 pm and take steps to take feedback from the patients and set up complaint boxes in the hospitals.
