THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, January 16: Removal and shifting of old, unused and time-worn beds, tools and medicines etc is in full swing in the three-storeyed GNM building in the campus of the MMCH Daltonganj.
There are little over one dozen rooms including big halls where at least ten clinical OPDs are to be relocated. This is a part of decongesting the main building in the MMCH of the patients. OPDs in one location are a great convenience to the patients.
Additional Chief Secretary of Health Ajoy Kumar Singh had inspected the MMCH Daltonganj on January 9. He had asked the DC Shashi Ranjan, City Commissioner Md Jawed Husaain, Civil Surgeon Dr Anil Kumar, and Medical Superintendent Dr Dharmendra Kumar to relocate OPDs here in the GNM building.
The removal of old stashed things here is giving shock and tremor. Costlier antibiotics in hundreds were found expired here. Similar was the case with the pack of the salines.
Concerns Over Expired Medicines
Civil Surgeon Dr Anil Kumar today reached the GNM building and picked up quite a few strips and bottles of medicines there which had expired lying in the carton or box. Dr Anil asked the MMCH personnel there to segregate the expired ones from those medicines which are worth using following their expiry dates longer.
Dr Anil Kumar said there is an old saying FIFO which means medicine ‘first in will be first out’. Again there is a term FEFO. It means ‘first expired first out’. That principle has to be applied here.
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The Medical Superintendent Dr Dharmendra Kumar too joined the Civil Surgeon and took stock of the works going on there. The medical debris was expected to be most overwhelming here.
City Commissioner Md Jawed Husaain told the Jharkhand Story correspondent today, “We are most concerned about the medicines there. Medicines that went expired make us sad.”
Jawed further said, “We have decided to put in charge someone there who is knowledgeable about the medicines and other things.”
Storekeepers can’t handle it on their own. There must be someone having experiences in handling medicines be with the storekeepers.
Civil Surgeon Dr Anil Kumar
Plans for OPD Relocation and Future Arrangements
Medical Superintendent Dr Dharmendra Kumar said, “We hope to relocate the first three departments like eye, ENT and skin. These three will be positioned in G+1.”
“Once we streamline lesser footfall OPDs we will go for the massive OPDs like medicine, orthopedics and surgery. These are to be on the ground floor,” explained the Medical Superintendent.
He also hinted at having minor OTs here in the GNM building.
Civil Surgeon Dr Anil Kumar is of the opinion that medicine, orthopaedics and surgery departments be made functional first as these are heavy rush OPDs.
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X-ray and USG will be on the ground floor. For the time being there will be no change in the registration counter, added Dr Dharmendra Kumar.
“We understand the registration counter be left there where it is now. It will be relocated to some spacious space at some suitable time”, reminded the Medical Superintendent.
City Commissioner Md Jawed Husaain is of the view that the location of the registration counter be at such a site which is patient-friendly.
Sources said it may take two or three weeks more to find the fleet of the OPDs functioning here.
