Docs holding admn posts to undertake clinical duties: Vij

CHANDIGARH: Government doctors in Haryana holding administrative posts will have to undertake clinical duties in state-run hospitals, health minister Anil Vij said on Monday.

This includes doctors from the Haryana civil medical and dental services, and district ayurvedic officers.

This decision has been taken to ensure quality healthcare services and availability of doctors at government hospitals, he said here.

The minister said the doctors doing out-patient department (OPD) duties will not only help meeting the requirement of doctors, but also provide relief to patient coming to state-run hospitals.

However, these orders will not be applicable for doctors working in other departments on deputation, Vij clarified.

In case, a doctor is unable to perform this duty, the person will be given additional work the following week, he said in an official release. The health minister said as per this decision, the director general or additional director general of health will have to do clinical work for two hours on any one day in a week.

Civil surgeons and other officers holding equivalent ranks will have to do this work one day in a week, he said.

Principal medical officers, medical superintendents, deputy civil surgeons, senior medical officers and other officers holding equivalent ranks would also have to perform this duty for two days in a week, Vij said.

He said apart from this, deputy directors, senior medical officers, medical officers and dental surgeons posted in the directorate of health, National Health Mission, Haryana Medical Services Corporation Limited, Haryana State Health Resource Centre, State AIDS Control Society and State Institute of Health and Family Welfare would perform clinical duty for two days in a week.

The same would apply to district ayurvedic officers of the Ayush department, Vij said.