To add to the difficult work conditions for doctors in overcrowded government hospitals, they are currently saddles with administrative responsibilities too
Delhi government is all set to appoint hospital managers in its hospitals to relieve doctors of administrative duties. The Delhi cabinet on Wednesday approved the health department’s proposal for appointment of 92 managers at its hospitals.
According to a Delhi government statement, the hospital managers (superintendents) would be appointed on fixed consolidated remuneration initially for a one year, on contract basis. Currently, 24 Delhi government hospitals (excluding autonomous institutions) are providing secondary, tertiary and specialised healthcare to people. “These health facilities need to be run efficiently to cater to clinical service delivery as well as ancillary operations of hospital management for providing quality healthcare services to the citizen of Delhi,” the statement said.
Till now, apart from clinical service delivery, medical directors, superintendents, doctors, nurses, paramedics and
pharmacists were engaged in ancillary operations of hospital management as well. According to the statement, multifarious services ranging from housekeeping, sanitation, kitchen services to specialised medical requirements and equipment handling among others are required to be efficiently managed in hospitals. Doctors in government hospitals are a grossly overworked lot and to add to the multifarious problems plaguing health institutes, the more senior they get, more are the administrative workload on them apart from patient care duties.
Currently, 24 Delhi government hospitals (excluding autonomous institutions) are providing secondary, tertiary and specialised healthcare to people. “These health facilities need to be run efficiently to cater to clinical service delivery as well as ancillary operations of hospital management for providing quality healthcare services to the citizen of Delhi,” the statement said.
“Involvement of doctors in administrative work not only leads to reduction in their clinical (service) output, but
also puts an additional load of hospital management on them,” says the Delhi government statement. States such as Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar have under the National Health Mission also created posts of hospital managers to employ professional manpower having managerial competence, the Delhi government said in the statement.
