After receiving complaints about emergency medical services at various civil hospitals, the bureau constituted 12 special checking teams.
The special teams last night conducted surprise checking of emergency services at civil hospitals of Dera Bassi, Bassi Pathana, Samana, Sangrur, Mansa, Samrala, Abohar, Fatehgarh Sahib and Community Health Centre Ajnala, Chamkaur Sahib, Kartarpur and Tanda, Punjab's Chief Director, Vigilance Bureau, Suresh Arora said here today.
Arora said that during the surprise checkings, some irregularities were found.
These included call registers not being properly maintained and in more than one emergency OPD, expired medicines were found in the emergency trays at many places.
Besides, ECG machines were not in working condition, life saving equipments were out of order in several ambulance vans and there was shortage of diesel, Arora informed.
He further said that it was also noticed at Bathinda that the Medical Officer in an emergency OPD attended a patient who was having multiple injuries but in the Medico Legal Report, only one injury was recorded.
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He said that the purpose behind the surprise checking was to check among other things the emergency OPD services of the hospitals/community health centers, including duty registers, availability of doctors/staff on duty, physical verifications of essential equipment, authenticity of entries made in emergency OPD register and availability of emergency medicines.
"It (the checking) was also aimed to make recommendations to the government regarding deficiencies or shortage of medicines and medical equipment found in the emergencies and OPDs during the inspections," he said.