Bihar District Hospitals To Provide OPD Services Twice A Day To Make Them More Patient Friendly

Bihar's district hospitals will provide Outpatient Department services twice a day as part of health department's plan of making hospitals more patient-friendly.

Written by: India.com News Desk Edited by: Shrimansi Kaushik

Published: October 2, 2022, 11:11 PM IST

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Patna: All district hospitals in Bihar will be required to offer Outpatient Department (OPD) services twice a day by November 15 this year. The state health department is planning to implement this facility as part of the department’s ‘Mission 60’ which is targeted towards overhauling of district hospitals in the state and making these health facilities patient-friendly, and reduce burden on medical colleges and hospitals, said a report by Times of India.

“At present, OPD services in district hospitals are provided from 9 am to 1 pm; while this additional service will be available from 3:30 pm to 5 pm,” Pratyaya Amrit, Additional Chief Secretary, Health Department,  told TOI.

OVERHAUL OF BIHAR’S DISTRICT HOSPITALS

Explaining Mission 60, Amrit said the motive behind launching this service is to solve the basic issues like general cleanliness, services, availability of medicines and doctors, besides earmarking of parking facilities and signage. He said that the work in this regard was going on at all the district hospitals.

State Health Society Executive Director, Sanjay Kumar Singh said they have a target to complete the first phase of work by November 20. “Work is on fast track and we are getting the images from the site, which show massive improvement,” said Singh, adding the teams have visited the district hospitals twice and have seen positive changes.

Dr Abhishek Kumar Sinha, who is state Programme Officer, Health System Strengthening Cell, at State Health Society, said the department was also targeting to reduce the burden at the medical colleges and provide immediate medical help to people through its Mission 60 at district hospitals itself.

Dr Sinha said, “As of now, on an average 300 to 400 patients are seen in district hospitals every day, including in OPDs and emergency, while for medical colleges and hospitals this figure is 1500 to 2000 daily. Mission 60 will bring a lot of improvement in health infrastructure in Bihar.”