RAJBIRAJ, JUNE 6

Rajbiraj Municipality Mayor Bhim Raj Yadav today said action would be taken against health workers of Rajbiraj-based Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital if they did not provide better service to patients.

Speaking at a press meet to take feedback and suggestions for the upcoming budget, policies, and programmes in the Municipality Assembly hall in Rajbiraj,Saptari today, newly-elected Mayor Yadav said doctors were not found attending patients at government hospitals.

'The health workers do not provide time to patients in government hospitals, rather they are found working in private hospitals,' he added.

Yadav said that stern action would be taken if such practice was not stopped.

'Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital was established to provide cheap, better and quality treatment facility to the people,' he added. Mayor Yadav said doctors in the hospital were working at private hospitals rather than giving full time to government hospital where they are tenured.

'I myself saw patients facing problems due to lack of doctors when I was taking a round of the hospital for inspection,' he said.

Mayor Yadav said that close monitoring would be done though CCTV cameras and other means to find out who was not completing duty hours at the hospital. He added that no health worker was allowed to go to private hospitals leaving their duty in the government hospital.

He said the patients and their relatives had complained about the same. He said that the problem would be resolved after the hospital administration meeting.

Mayor Yadav said dysfunctional machines would come into operation as the municipality had released the amount to repair the CT scan and x-ray machine, among other equipment.

Yadav committed that a municipal bus would be operated within three months for municipality dwellers. He also assured people that he would take the initiative to provide landownership certificates to the people residing in 60 bigha of land in Rajbiraj.

He urged the stakeholders to provide feedback and suggestion for the upcoming budget, policies and programmes.

At the programme, Deputy Mayor Ishrat Prabin and chairs from different wards also sought suggestions from stakeholders.

A version of this article appears in the print on June 7, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.