AIIMS director asks docs, employees to report presence of unauthorised brokers on hospital campus

According to a round issued by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director Dr M Srinivas on Friday, the safety employees shall make sure that all such persons are handed over to the police outpost on the hospital for trespassing and exploiting sufferers.

The info may be e-mailed to [email protected], the round stated.

It talked about that unidentified and unauthorised people belonging to sure personal corporations, hospitals, laboratories and radiology centres and many others., are sometimes seen roaming contained in the AIIMS campus to hunt financial achieve from the sufferers.

It can be learnt that they facilitate the issuance of OPD playing cards and admissions. These brokers additionally divert sufferers for laboratory or radiology investigations to non-public services.

Some of them promote medicines, disposables, surgical objects and implants, the round stated.

All such unidentified people, distributors and brokers are strictly barred from coming into the hospital campus, in keeping with the round.

“All the doctors, nurses and staff members are hereby instructed that, even on slightest suspicion of presence of any unauthorised and unidentified person in the campus or around the departments and areas of the campus, immediately report to the special WhatsApp number 9355023969,” it acknowledged.

The identification of the one who reviews about such unauthorised individuals shall be saved confidential and acceptable motion shall be taken to cease the exploitation of the sufferers.

Wearing the designated uniform and displaying identification playing cards is an easy technique to reinforce the safety on the hospital premises and this can allow the administration to establish any unauthorised particular person.

Hence, the round requested all of the employees members of the AIIMS to make sure that identification playing cards are worn throughout the campus. In addition, the employees working within the operation theatre shall have their names embroidered on their scrubs.

“Heads of the departments are also hereby requested to ensure that all the waiting lists are attended, which will prevent the patients from falling into the trap of these agents and getting exploited financially. Administration shall provide necessary support to all the heads of the departments as and where necessary, which will enable them to complete the waiting lists,” the round stated.

If any such unauthorised particular person or agent is discovered wherever on the campus, the respective space in-charges resembling senior resident docs, college members, nursing officers and different employees shall even be held accountable and deemed to be serving to these brokers and touts, and disciplinary motion as deemed match shall be taken in opposition to them.

“It is reiterated that all the doctors, nursing staff and other staff are hereby being informed to specifically report any such presence and movement of unauthorised agents at hospital premises,” the round stated.