A number of new hospitals had been arrange in West Bengal lately, expanding get right of entry to to healthcare via other people. However the state is going through the issue of scarcity of medical doctors to run the ones hospitals. Amid this, Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee has get a hold of ‘cutting edge’ concepts to handle the issue. She has steered that degree classes must be presented for medical doctors. She additionally steered that senior nurses may well be promoted as ‘semi-doctors’.
Throughout a ‘Utkarsh Bangla’ evaluate assembly at Nabanna on Thursday, Mamata Banerjee made those ideas to handle the problem of the dearth of medical doctors. The CM informed the well being division officers that they are able to consider beginning a degree path for medical doctors, very similar to the present degree classes for engineers.
The CM stated, ‘See if we will be able to get started a degree path for medical doctors like engineers. Then many girls and boys gets alternatives in clinical classes. It takes 5 years to coach the entire medical doctors we’re getting. It takes a large number of time. We make use of junior medical doctors. However they have got to check and take tests. Excluding this if we will be able to release a degree path, we will be able to make use of them in number one well being centres. It is going to give excellent effects.’
Mamata Banerjee additional added, ‘We will get started degree classes. Test it out. Degree coaching will also be given in hospitals. There are large seminar halls, govt conference halls, you’ll educate there too. Professor medical doctors will give coaching.’
The West Bengal Leader Minister additionally repeated an offer she had made previous, to make use of senior nurses as medical doctors to offer fundamental healthcare. She stated that nurses who’re 5-6 years from retirement, or 10 years away, will also be hired at number one well being centres. She stated that they are able to’t be known as with no clinical stage, they may well be known as ‘semi-doctors’.
She stated that whilst medical doctors write prescriptions, nurses put into effect them, and they’re subsequently certified to regard sufferers. ‘Take a look at the prison problems. They may be able to give first support via giving saline, oxygen and life-giving medication,’ the CM informed the officers.
‘Those that had been for a very long time, who could have 5-7-10 years left to retire… see if they are able to do it or now not. You don’t have to enter prison issues once more in the whole lot. The side of humanity must even be noticed. Getting to a affected person is the primary process of the well being division. Giving the affected person saline, giving oxygen and life-sustaining medicine, they are able to assist stabilize the affected person,’ she added.
In any other proposal to extend the choice of healthcare employees, Mamata Banerjee stated that new nurses will also be hired after a coaching of simply 15 days. The CM argued that the task of a nurse may be very easy and it must now not take greater than 15 days to coach them.
‘Administering bandage, saline, injection, oxygen or right kind medication, 15 days is sufficient to educate them for that. Nurses won’t do surgical procedure in the end. Additionally, senior nurses are there for advanced works,’ she stated. The CM added that such nurses will also be regarded as as junior nurses, and given coaching accordingly. She additionally requested the officers to appear into opening 100 extra nursing coaching institutes in each district.
Mamata Banerjee additionally made equivalent ideas to replenish vacancies in different departments as neatly. She ordered to finish the recruitment of all police posts inside the subsequent 3 months, asking to cut back their coaching length to seven days as a substitute of six months. She stated she feels that coaching of six months for law enforcement officials is a ‘waste of time’.
She stated, “As an alternative of six months, ship them to the police station with seven days of coaching. Building up the pressure after which name them for seven days of each month and educate them. This is, they paintings 21 days of the month and whole the remainder of the method with coaching for the rest seven days. I believe that coaching for any such very long time is a waste of time.”