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Hindustan Times
18-07-2025
- Health
- Hindustan Times
Slew of measures soon at RMLIMS for better patient care, says director
To streamline services amid rising patient footfall, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS) will roll out a range of new measures, including the expansion of emergency wards, the launch of a green OPD, a new registration hall, and other upgraded facilities, according to professor CM Singh, the director of the institute. RMLIMS director professor CM Singh. (Sourced) He pointed out that the patient footfall at RMLIMS is around 4,000 per day, while emergency witnesses over 550 patients on a daily basis. 'With the recruitment of 166 faculties, RMLIMS has taken every care to provide smooth services to patients. To deal with the rush, several important steps have been taken and other initiatives are in store,' professor Singh said. While 47 beds are operational in the emergency area at present, 45 more will be added for smooth functioning and better patient care, he added. Green OPD: Green OPD will be launched soon in the emergency premises. Patients will be segregated in serious and non-serious categories to avoid unnecessary occupation of beds in the emergency unit. Patients with non-serious health issues will be sent for consultation at the green OPD. More medicine counters: To facilitate patients in the new registration hall, four more counters will come up soon for the convenience of patients and to ease load on the five already operational counters. Besides, counters for Ayushman Bharat and Deen Dayal Upadhyay schemes will be shifted from the new registration hall to a triple-storey building beside Lohia Police Chowki, professor Singh said. Additional beds at neuroscience centre: The number of beds at the neuroscience centre in the old block has been increased to 90. Earlier, there were only 24 beds. This wing is likely to be inaugurated by chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the RMLIMS director said. New control room: To tackle complaints like dirty toilets in the wards, negligence by nursing officers, doctors not visiting wards, etc, a new centralised control room has been set up beside the emergency area, which is operational round the clock. Doctors, nursing staff, hospital administration officers and technicians are deployed in shifts, and the complaints are resolved within 15-20 minutes, prof Singh said. QR codes for redressal: A QR code has been fixed at each bed in every ward of the hospital, which will enable patients and their attendants to raise complaints against the doctors as well other staff of the hospital in case of negligence. The hospital administration will resolve the issue within half an hour. The chief medical superintendent and medical superintendent will review the complaints everyday, the RMLIMS director said. More facilities in store: Prof CM Singh said that a rural health training centre will be inaugurated in Juggaur area near Indira Canal. The centre has been constructed at the cost of ₹366.67 lakh. Other facilities include a foot overbridge to connect the main campus and academic block, developed at the cost of ₹456.50 lakh. There will also be a multipurpose hall, lecture theatre and cafeteria on the 10th floor of the academic block -- developed at the cost of ₹1022.63 lakh, he explained. Moreover, separate hostels for boys and girls, constructed near the Ekana stadium at the cost of ₹11486.77 lakh, educational institute for nursing college, and a Gamma Knife (primarily used for non-invasive, stereotactic radiosurgery, specifically targeting brain and upper spine conditions), installed at the cost of ₹4,400 lakh, will also be inaugurated soon, the RMLIMS director said.
New Indian Express
09-06-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Delhi govt follows ‘Antoday' policy at cost of middle class
Last week at a media briefing on the completion of 100 days of BJP-led Delhi government, city Education Minister Ashish Sood said that his government's policy was 'Antoday' oriented that is targeted towards the uplift of the last person in the queue. He went on to state that his understanding of social upliftwas inspired by late ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyay and the policies of the Narendra Modi government. Now first understanding Deen Dayal Upadhyay's Antoday. The late leader had said, 'The success of economic planning and economic progress will not be measured through those who are at the top of the society's ladder, but through the people at the lowest rung of the society.' Antoday means the welfare of the people at the bottom of the pyramid. Upadhyay had further enumerated, 'It is our thinking and principle that these uneducated and poor people are our gods. We have to worship them. It is our social and human dharma.' Upadhyay's Antoday in many measures carry a similarity with Gandhian social principle of Sarvoday. While both aim for inclusive development, Sarvoday is more idealistic and universalist in approach, whereas Antoday is more pragmatic and nationalist, emphasizing targeted policy action for the poorest. Together, they reflect Indian models of human-centric development with moral and cultural foundations. However, Antoday, or 'rise of the last person,' proposed by Upadhyay, sharpens the focus by prioritizing the welfare of the most deprived individual. Sood further went to list the decisions of his government in the first 100 days which indeed in spirit looked to be targeted for upliftment of the poorest of the poor.
