Kolkata: experienced nurses from government hospitals will now be appointed “nurse practitioners” and are permitted to carry out duties of junior doctors, with the absence of senior medical officers or to help them, Minister of Mamata’s Chairman Banerjee announced on Thursday after a meeting with health infrastructure with health infrastructure Senior official at the SSKM Hospital.
Banerjee also said that “shaman” (medical practitioners) will be used in rural health centers for preliminary care, because there is not always enough doctors who are eligible to serve in these centers.
“We lacked a doctor, and to bridge the gap that we planned to provide promotion to nurse experts as ‘practitioner nurses’.
Many nurses experienced and work well.
Now, they will be able to practice too, where the State Health Department will issue guidelines.
Nurses This will work with responsibility, “Banerjee said, adding that the number of nurses would also increase in hospitals.
He said the decision to take advantage of ‘shaman’ was taken because it took time to get a doctor’s degree.
“And there is always a shortage.
So, we can have more shamans to be filled for them at the initial stage of care,” he added.
Mamata Banerjee on SKKM on Thursday cm said the 10 hectare plot was identified for the purpose of building a housing complex for doctors, which will be free.
He is scheduled to fulfill the principles of five government medical colleges in the city on September 16 at the SSKM to review health infrastructure.
After the emergence of the second wave of Pandemic last May, the state government has announced that 2,75,000 shamans throughout the country will be used as the first defense against Covid.
They are called ‘Swasthya Surakha Bandhu’.
Banerjee said that steps were taken to investigate children under 12 years priority.
CM discusses the arrangement of cancer hospitals on the SSKM campus, to be built with the collaboration of Tata Cancer Hospital.
He directed Firhad Hakim, Chairperson, Board Administrator, KMC, to arrange foot bridges to connect both campuses.
Banerjee also searched for a link in the SSKM hospital to connect various departments at the hospital so that the staff could easily move between each other.
Nigam’s Health Secretary was also present at the meeting, which reviewed the health infrastructure before the possibility of the third wave of pandemic.
Ten thousand beds were ready on the pediatric ward, announced.