Karnataka - Belgaum   

Ramdas pays a surprise visit

Belgaum: The dialysis unit at the civil hospital attached to the Belgaum Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS) will be upgraded from a two-bed unit to a 10-bed ward in a month, Medical Education Minister S.A. Ramdas has said. He made the statement after a surprise visit to the hospital on Wednesday.

Mr. Ramdas also said that a generic pharmaceutical store would be opened on the hospital premises.

Steps would be taken to replace the private security system with Home Guards, he said. Promotions for doctors and other staff that were overdue would be made immediately and all vacant posts would be filled. A food court and a rest room would also be opened on the hospital premises, the Minister said. He said at the generic store, the price of medicines would be 50 per cent lower than the maximum retail price. The Government would talk to pharmaceutical companies to supply medicines at subsidised rates to make them affordable to the poor, the Minister said.

Mr. Ramdas said the MLAs from the city — Sanjay Patil, Abhay Kumar Patil and Feroz Sait — had responded positively to his request to fund two dialysis units under the MLA's Area Development Fund. The Government would fund two more units and upgrade the dialysis ward, he said.

The Minister said the decision to replace the private security system with Home Guards was taken in view of the thefts of new-born male babies from the hospital.

Earlier, Mr. Ramdas, who arrived in a taxi without police escort, inspected all the departments at the hospital.

Mr. Ramdas directed BIMS director M.R. Chandrashekhar not to pay salary to doctors who were serving at private hospitals after signing attendance register here.

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