Doctors working in government hospitals.
Jagran correspondent, Jaipur. Doctors working in government hospitals in Rajasthan will not be able to prescribe medicines from private medicine shops to the patients coming for treatment. The state government provides medicines to patients in government hospitals under the Free Medicine Scheme. In government hospitals, doctors prescribe medicines to the patients as per the disease and then the medicine is available free of cost from the medicine counter in the hospital.
But for some time, complaints were being received at higher levels in the government that in the greed of commission, doctors were prescribing only medicines available from private drug dealers outside the hospital to the patients. On this, on the instructions of Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Principal Secretary of the Medical Department, Gayatri Rathod has issued a warning notice to the doctors working in government hospitals.
Doctors have been instructed that if these instructions are not followed and medicine will be prescribed outside the hospital, action will be taken against the concerned doctor under Rajasthan Service Rules 1958.
Medical Department Director Ravi Prakash Sharma said that the state government is providing all types of medicines in government hospitals. This medicine is to be distributed free of cost to the patients. More than five hundred medicines are made available in primary health centres. These include more than 80 surgical medicines. There is a system to distribute more than eight hundred medicines free of cost in district hospitals and hospitals attached to medical colleges.