New medicine OP opened at Pulayanarkotta
A new medicine outpatient division has opened at Pulayanarkotta Chest Diseases hospital to alleviate overcrowding at the Government Medical College. The government aims to eliminate the practice of accommodating patients on hospital floors.
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This reflects public health infrastructure improvements and policy changes aimed at enhancing patient care standards.
A new medicine outpatient division has been opened at Pulayanarkotta Chest Diseases hospital as an extension of the General Medicine OP at the Government Medical College. This is one of the steps being taken by the government to reduce overcrowding at the MCH and to ensure that patients do not end up lying on the floor.
The government has taken a policy decision that patients would not be accommodated on the floor in public hospitals, Health Minister, K. Muraleedharan, said here on Saturday, while inaugurating the seventh unit of the General Medicine department
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