Patient Care Service
IPD and OPD treatment as well as diagnosis, are referred to as patient care services in hospitals.
Paying beds and cabins have now been converted into free beds. Superintendent of hospitals should allot these free beds for maternity, paediatrics and other IPD services to ease out congestion.
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.
Antenatal Clinic will start from 2-00 pm and will remain open up to 4-00 pm in addition to the routine OPD services as before from 9-00 am onwards at the PHC, BPHC & RH twice weekly on Monday and Friday as a value-added service.
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.
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.
A High Level Task Force was constituted under the chairmanship of Dr. Tridib Banerjee towards facilitation of activities of the Department in reduction of Infant/Maternal Mortality of the state. After having made some substantial improvement in Facility Based newborn Care, it seems necessary to improve the facility based maternal care also.
Under the National Iron + Initiative, iron and folic acid supplementation is being given across life stages including pregnant, lactating women and adolescent girls at health facilities and during outreach activities.
For the execution of the Quality Assurance Programme, the Department of Health and Family Welfare has decided to institute the Quality management System in all the six secondary level district hospitals.
State government is committed to provide different services (procedure and diagnostic) to all patients attending at District Hospitals of the State of West Bengal.
The Superintendents are directed to Constitute 11 (eleven) Quality Circles in their hospital for Quality improvement and each such Circle must have at least one member trained at Swasthya Bhawan.