Kejriwal for int’l-level care in govt hospitals
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal directed the health department on Wednesday to create a management system of “international standard” that can connect all the Delhi government hospitals, polyclinics and mohalla clinics and provide “360-degree facilities” to the patient.
“Developing the system would include computerising all records — like number of beds and ventilators available at the hospital, number of pharmacy counters, and availability of other equipment,” said a senior official from the health department.
“Apart from that, the data on the vacancy of beds and ventilators or dialysis machines, availability of medicines, the functionality of an equipment have to be updated to the system on a realtime basis,” the official said.
Online and telephonic appointments, real-time data on the availability of doctors, medicines and ventilators would all be integrated into the system proposed during a review meeting of the health department on Wednesday.
The system would also include facilities like redesigning existing infrastructure and
THE SYSTEM WOULD INCLUDE COMPUTERISING ALL RECORDS — LIKE NUMBER OF BEDS AND VENTILATORS AVAILABLE
refurbishing drugs and consumables in the wards, OPDS and hospital pharmacies.
Such a system would help in reducing queues and enhancing the patient experience, the chief minister said.
“Directed Health dept today to develop most modern hospital Management Information System of international standards to integrate all Del govt hospitals, Moh clinics n polyclinics,” the chief minister tweeted on Wednesday.
The health department is currently in the process of identifying parameters that will need to be integrated into the system. “At first, we will start with efficient management of the hospitals, so most of the data will be for the hospitals and the health department. Then we will look at integrating the patient facilities to it,” an official of the health department informed.