Display clear signages in hospitals: Keralam Health Minister
Kerala Health Minister K. Muraleedharan has ordered all government hospitals to display clear signage regarding doctor availability, OP timings, and staff vacancies. The move aims to increase transparency and accountability in public healthcare institutions.
Why it matters
Improving information accessibility in public hospitals is a critical step toward reducing patient wait times and improving the quality of government-provided healthcare.
Keralam Health Minister K. Muraleedharan has directed government hospitals to ensure proper display of signboards, so that hospital services become more patient-friendly and transparent. He suggested that the details of doctors in public hospitals, their outpatient (OP) clinic days and timings be clearly displayed in hospitals.
A statement issued by the office of the Health Minister said that Mr. Muraleedharan had intervened after several complaints were received from the public regarding the functioning of government healthcare institutions. At primary healthcare institutions, patients end up waiting for long hours as doctors remained absent during OP hours
Mr. Muraleedharan has directed the Principal Secretary(Health) to take steps to implement this on an urgent basis in all government health institutions, from primary health centres to taluk headquarters hospitals.
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