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‘Government hospitals need more attention’

Staff Reporter

Posts filled on ad hoc basis through outsourcing agencies

Kakinada: The Kakinada Consumers’ Council (KCC) has termed the ordinance issued by the State Government for the protection of doctors, as a cosmetic treatment of the actual malaise that lay elsewhere.

In a press release, KCC president D. Lakshmana Rao and secretary P.S.R.K. Timmaji Rao stated that the real problem was the Government’s inability to render proper medical services in Government hospitals. People generally shun Government hospitals despite spending of huge sums on equipment and other infrastructure.

The reason, according to the KCC is “barring honourable exceptions, many doctors make lucrative earnings through private practice and associating themselves with corporate hospitals. There is no recruitment in hospitals and some of the posts are filled by giving petty remuneration on ad hoc basis through outsourcing agencies. The senior doctors after superannuation are making their way into corporate hospitals.”

This being the scenario, the State Government should pay more attention to Government hospitals to make them more efficient.

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