AIIMS Head's Letter Seeking Smooth Medical Facilities For MPs Cites "SOP"
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AIIMS New Delhi has always had a 24x7 control room for co-ordination of medical care of patients from all walks of life, the hospital later said in a tweet.
The director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Lok Sabha Joint Secretary over streamlining the Outpatient Department (OPD), emergency consultation, and inpatient hospitalisation services for the Members of Parliament, following the SOPs that were issued in this regard.
"In case a sitting Member of Parliament requires OPD consultation from a specialty/super-specialty department, the Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha Secretariat or the personal staff of the MP will contact the duty officer and provide him requisite details about the ailment and a specialist/super-specialist doctor to be consulted," stated Dr M Srinivas's letter to YM Kandpal.
"The SOPs include duty officers, who are qualified medical professionals from the department of hospital administration, will be available in the control room of AIIMS Hospital around the clock and the officer on duty will be the nodal officer to coordinate and facilitate requisite medical care arrangements for sitting MPs," it added.
According to the letter by Dr Srinivas, "The duty officer will speak to a concerned specialist or super specialist doctor or head of the department and fix a requisite appointment. In case it is so required, we can speak to the Chief of Centre or Head of the concerned department as well."
