Vadodara: Health dept team inspects hospital

Vadodara: A four-member team from Gujarat’s health department including Dr Rajesh Patel, chief medical officer of the state nodal cell for state’s health insurance scheme, Mukhyamantri Amrutam (MA) yojana, visited city-based Premadas Jalaram Hospital on Tuesday.

The hospital located on Harni-Warasiya Road was recently in the news for botching up medical reports of kidney patients who come at the hospital for dialysis.

After reports of the alleged negligence, the state health department had last week suspended the hospital’s affiliation for the MA yojana. “If any discrepancy is found in the audit, we visit the hospital. This too is a routine visit meant to inspect infrastructure facilities, medical records and HR inspection,” said Patel.

Patel confirmed that there were some discrepancies that came to the notice of the team. “We have issued necessary directives to the hospital so that they take corrective action,” he said.

He said that there were reports of patients getting hepatitis c virus (HCV) infection which decreases immunity of patients. “We have to ensure that the situation does not aggravate,” he said.

While the dialysis facility at the hospital has been suspended for now, the officials said beneficiaries from poor families can continue taking benefit of the MA scheme from other private hospitals in the city.