Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has given a three-month deadline to the health department officials to show visible improvement in health care services.
Expressing shock over the Guntur incident where a newborn died after being bitten by rats, the Chief Minister said it was disturbing and unacceptable.
At a meeting on general health, women and child welfare at the Secretariat here on Friday, Mr. Naidu proposed committee to standardise healthcare services across the State and evolve a set of tests that patients could undergo in government hospitals.
“I want the infrastructure to be upgraded in all hospitals and a visible change within three months. There cannot be a compromise on hygiene or sanitation in hospitals,” he warned. To monitor quality of the services in hospitals, Mr. Naidu directed officials to appoint an RDO-cadre officer as an administrator.
“In addition to this, I want every medical facility to be geo-tagged and live data entered into the system.”
Responding to the suggestion that diagnostics could be outsourced to service providers under IDEA scheme, he said they would be outsourced to private organisations specialising in them.
