Doctors redeployed once more, this time to Kalaignar Super Speciality Hospital in Guindy

Without creating new posts, the Health division has as soon as once more resorted to redeploying medical doctors. This time, 9 posts of medical doctors from varied authorities medical faculty hospitals, together with Chengalpattu and Tiruchi, are being redeployed to the Kalaignar Centenary Super Speciality Hospital (KCSSH), Guindy to fulfil an announcement made by the Health Minister within the Assembly.

The Minister had introduced that further speciality departments of basic drugs, basic surgical procedure, ENT, ophthalmology, dermatology, orthopaedic surgical procedure and respiratory drugs could be established at KCSSH. In line with this, following a proposal from the Director of Medical Education and Research, the State authorities gave the nod to redeploy 9 posts — 4 assistant professors and 5 senior residents — for the creation of six speciality departments at KCSSH. For orthopaedics, the providers of three orthopaedic surgeons on the hospital’s emergency room could be utilised for basic orthopaedic providers on a rotation foundation.

Issuing an order, the Health division redeployed posts of assistant professors and senior residents (three for basic drugs, two for basic surgical procedure, one every for ENT, Ophthalmology, Dermatology and Respiratory Medicine) from Chengalpattu Medical College, Government Medical College, Omandurar Estate, Government Stanley Medical College (SMC), KAP Viswanathan Government Medical College, Tiruchi, Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College, Salem and Government Kilpauk Medical College to KCSSH.

This will not be the primary time the division is redeploying medical doctors. Recently, 78 medical officers had been redeployed from present upgraded Primary Health Centres (PHC) to 50 new PHCs drawing sharp criticism from authorities medical doctors.

A senior physician mentioned that the division shouldn’t be redeploying medical doctors from districts akin to Tiruchi and Chengalpattu which have just one authorities medical faculty to a spot like Chennai that has so many authorities well being amenities. “Would this not have an effect on affected person care providers in Chengalpattu? Why are medical doctors moved from peripheral medical faculties to town? In reality, diverting medical doctors from SMC can be unacceptable because it caters to a big inhabitants of north Chennai. Instead, the division ought to deal with creating new posts,” he mentioned.

Ok. Senthil, president of Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association, mentioned that already, the State was dealing with a scarcity of manpower in accordance with the affected person load, a key issue important to keep up high quality of therapy however has been missing for the previous 20 years. “If the federal government is agency that there’s a restrict to recruiting manpower, they need to not begin new hospitals however attempt to equip the present ones with enough workers,” he mentioned.

A. Ramalingam, secretary, Service Doctors and Post Graduates Association, mentioned the Health division was figuring out posts of medical doctors in authorities medical faculty hospitals that had been in extra of the National Medical Commission’s prescribed minimal requirements and redeploying them. “We have been demanding that new posts of medical doctors must be created as per affected person power and proposals of the Indian Public Health Standards. Take the medication division of SMC. Out of 18 sanctioned posts of medical doctors, now we have 16 in place, and one in every of them has been redeployed now. We have already sought six further posts for affected person care as we’d like extra fingers for the intensive medical care unit,” he mentioned.