Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has proposed the SSKM Hospital as well as Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGME&R) to send junior doctors to visit remote villages to attend health camps there for three to four days, every week. Miss Banerjee, who also holds the health portfolio, while addressing the 67th foundation ceremony of SSKM Hospital on Monday, said, “Junior doctors are doing excellent work here.
I would propose that they go to remote villages for three to four days every week so that they could give service to patients there. They will get a special allowance if they visit rural health camps.” Soon after getting the chief minister’s proposal the health department decided to implement her idea of sending junior doctors to remote villages from SSKM hospital first.
The move would also be implemented by other government teaching hospitals in the city in coming days. She also urged the SSKM Hospital authorities to depute senior doctors during night shifts at the hospital. “Senior doctors would have to stay on duty during night shifts at the hospital because emergency cases like heart attack, cerebral attack, severe injury caused by accident etc happen mainly at night,” she said.
“There are many doctors, who always mint money from patients by forcing them to implant pacemakers or keeping dead bodies in the ICUs to make exorbitant treatment bills. But there are also many other doctors who do good work for patients and don’t think about money,” she said addressing physicians, “serve patients with a smiling face because you are serving the society