CMO seeks to minimize SDM’s ‘publicity’ of Firozabad well being centre

Agra Well being officers in Firozabad are on the backfoot after a lady SDM visited a authorities well being centre in veil on Tuesday and uncovered that half of the medicines there had expired and well being providers weren’t on top of things.

SDM Kirti Raj visits Dida Mai Well being Centre in Firozabad in a veil on Tuesday, to conduct a shock inspection. (HT)

Pushed to the wall, the well being division officers reacted to the incident on Wednesday. Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Firozabad, Dr Rambadan Ram visited the well being centre and located all the things so as however mentioned {that a} three-member committee, headed by the extra CMO, had been set as much as probe the matter. Motion can be taken on the idea of the report, he mentioned.

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To recall, Firozabad SDM (Sadar) Krati Raj, an IAS officer of the 2021 batch, visited the well being centre in a veil on Tuesday and uncovered the apathy of docs and different employees working there. She mentioned she had obtained a grievance about inconveniences confronted by sufferers, primarily these trying to get vaccinated in opposition to rabies, at Dida Mai well being centre in Firozabad.

“I performed an inspection at 12.05 pm on Wednesday. Work was on for cleanliness and portray. No main shortcomings, as pointed by SDM have been discovered on the well being centre. But we’re probing the problems raised and anybody discovered responsible will likely be punished,” mentioned CMO Dr Rambadan Ram who outrightly denied the fees that expired medicines got to sufferers.

“There have been no expired medicines being distributed to sufferers. The medicines with expiry dates in March and April 2024 have been stored individually and weren’t getting used. They have been to be discarded and have been talked about within the discharge register. It seems that the SDM discovered a ‘fallacious’ field of medicines with expiry date,” he mentioned.

Seemingly by embarrassed by the incident, the CMO admitted that such allegations downed the ‘morale’ of officers and employees ‘working laborious’ to adjust to pointers issued by the state authorities to maintain well being providers good.

“We now have not less than 279 kinds of medication and vaccines out there for various issues, together with hypertension, diabetes, snake and canine chunk as ordered by the state well being division. Many sufferers flip up at Dida Mai well being centre and all are attended one after the other all by way of the day,” claimed the CMO, including that he was not conscious as to what lapses SDM Krati Raj discovered.

“The well being centre incharge , Dr Durg Pratap Singh, is the one psychiatrist within the district and needed to attend camps organised throughout Firozabad. There are three docs on obligation and one had gone after signing the register. Clarification has been sought about his absence,” the CMO mentioned .

The matter took a political flip after Samajwadi Get together president and former U.P CM Akhilesh Yadav took to X to focus on the state authorities on fees of expired medicines getting used at a authorities well being centrw in Firozabad.

“Expiry date of BJP authorities treating sufferers with expired medicines is quick approaching,” posted the SP chief .

To notice, SDM Sadar Krati Raj mentioned about her go to to the well being centre that had obtained a grievance and so selected to go to the well being facility in a veil to seek out out details. “When the physician got here, he was impolite to the sufferers. Later, I inspected the medication inventory and located that half of it had expired. Cleanliness was not on top of things and employees administering injections was not working correctly. Many workers marked current have been absent,” the IAS officer mentioned, including, “I’ll submit a report back to increased authorities.”

Disguised as a affected person, she even obtained a slip for herself on the well being centre and interacted with ladies sufferers there together with her veil on. Her id was revealed solely when she disclosed it earlier than she started inspecting the medication inventory.