Bhubaneswar: The State government will be introducing a bio-metric attendance system for the staff in hospitals in the 2023-24 financial year. Health Secretary Shalini Pandit informed that a bio-metric system will be launched to ensure regular attendance of the doctors, nurses and other staff.
In the first phase, it will be installed in district headquarters hospitals and medical colleges. Later, the infrastructure will be installed at Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and Community Health Centres (CHCs).
The government will be appointing 5,000 doctors and 9,000 staff nurses and an MBBS doctor in every CHC in the state before the end of the financial year. With a target to reach patients in an emergency within 20 minutes instead of the present 30 minutes, the government will procure 236 ambulances with a budget of Rs 250 crore.
The government will launch ‘Ama Hospital’ in all 147 Assembly constituencies, which will be operational within nine months. Besides, selected CHCs and sub-divisional hospitals would be upgraded to ‘Ama Hospital’ and Rs 750 crore spent towards the development of these medical facilities, added Pandit.
