Odisha issues guidelines for safety of doctors, students and medicare persons: Read details
Published By : Sourabha Parida | September 19, 2024 10:46 AM
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Bhubaneswar, Sept 19: In the wake of rape and murder of a postgraduate doctor at Kolkata's R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, the Odisha government has come up with a policy for providing a safe workplace environment for doctors, students and medicare persons in healthcare & health education institutions.
Know the guidelines:
The health institution should establish a clear incident reporting process ensuring confidentiality and prompt action on reported incidents, the guideline raid.
Any incident of violence against medical students should be promptly investigated by the college management and FIR should be lodged with the police within six hours by the head of the institution.
A detailed action taken report of any incident of violence should invariably be sent to the National Medical commission (NMC), within 48 hours of the incident.
The superintendent of Police of concerned district shall take immediate and appropriate action as per law against miscreants in order to discourage people from such activities.
An institutional monitoring committee should be constituted to undertake monthly review of the above measures and take follow up action thereon. The committee should be chaired by the head of the institution and should have representatives of doctors/faculty, paramedics, students and other relevant groups.
A clear emergency response plan should be developed for all institutions, which may include panic buttons, emergency phones, mobile apps etc. to respond quickly to any threat and in emergency situations. A specific phone number can be set-up in the main security control Room to report any emergency or security issue at any time.
Availability of doctor's duty room and washrooms for male and female doctors and nurses in all wards shall be ensured.
CSTV cameras are to be installed at strategic locations of the hospitals for monitoring of the activities in the hospital. CCTVs should be installed outside all hostels' main gate, roads, round abouts, stainryells, other strategic points on campus and on each floor of the hostel.
All employees/workers of the health institution should be provided with an ID card' dress codes where applicable, should be strictly followed.
Visitors pass system is to be followed for indoor patients. Only two entry passes are to be issued per patient, for attending the patient during official visiting hours and the attendants entering the ward should be frisked by the internal security guards to check for possession of any dangerous/objectionable items.
Attendants should wait in a designated waiting area outside the ward. They should be allowed to meet the patient only during visiting hours to be decided by the Medical Superintendent. Visiting hours must be mentioned on the visiting card issued to the attendants and also on the prominent sites in the hospital/medical College.
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