Patient Care Service
IPD and OPD treatment as well as diagnosis, are referred to as patient care services in hospitals.
All the Out patient departments, Indoor Patient departments, Polyclinics of all Government Hospitals and all other public health facilities, prescriptions shall be made out in generic name of drug.
State level Advisory Committee (SLAC-CCU) has been constituted to advise the department on the prioritization of establishment of CCUs in different government hospitals and management of critical care services in the CCUs so set up.
Nurse Practitioner in midwifery will be responsible for promotion of health of women throughout their life cycle with special focus on adolescent childbearing years menopausal and their new born and children.
Projects for establishing Emergency Observation Ward (EOW) has been decided in all Govt Hospitals in three Phases. a. Protocol implementation phase, b. Financial implication phase, c. Human resource recruitment phase.
Safe Abortion Care Services will be provided through empanelled Private registered Medical Practitioners at public health facilities which do not have CAC trained MOs till date or will not be provided with CAC trained MOs in 2014-15.
User charges imposed in all the secondary and primary hospitals of the State is withdrawn to allow free diagnostics, pathology, therapeutic & surgeries and beds.
Doctors are to prescribe combination drugs with two molecules in generic names in the OPD, IPD and also in emergency department in the interest of better patient care services.
Calcutta Pavlov Hospital is hereby declared as the 2nd campus of Calcutta National Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata; and the following medical-administrative protocol and general administrative protocol will be followed for such purpose.
As per recommendation of the Multi-disciplinary Expert Group, there will be one single central clinical laboratory at those secondary and primary care hospitals for more patient friendly approach.
Conducting Cataract Surgeries free of cost for the patients is a mandate of the NPCB, whether it is conducted in Govt. hospital or in the hospitals of partner NGOs.