Diploma docs, semi-doctors and others, Mamata Banerjee’s methods to fill-up vacancies

Several new hospitals have been organize in West Bengal in present events, rising entry to healthcare by of us. But the state is coping with the problem of shortage of docs to run these hospitals. Amid this, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has give you ‘innovative’ ideas to cope with the problem. She has immediate that diploma packages should be launched for docs. She moreover immediate that senior nurses might very properly be promoted as ‘semi-doctors’.

During a ‘Utkarsh Bangla’ consider meeting at Nabanna on Thursday, Mamata Banerjee made these methods to cope with the issue of the shortage of docs. The CM knowledgeable the properly being division officers that they are going to think about starting a diploma course for docs, very like the prevailing diploma packages for engineers.

The CM said, ‘See if we can start a diploma course for doctors like engineers. Then many boys and girls will get opportunities in medical courses. It takes 5 years to train all the doctors we are getting. It takes a lot of time. We employ junior doctors. But they have to study and take exams. Apart from this if we can launch a diploma course, we can employ them in primary health centres. It will give good results.’

Mamata Banerjee extra added, ‘We can start diploma courses. Check it out. Diploma training can be given in hospitals. There are big seminar halls, government convention halls, you can train there too. Professor doctors will give training.’

The West Bengal Chief Minister moreover repeated a suggestion she had made earlier, to utilize senior nurses as docs to produce basic healthcare. She said that nurses who’re 5-6 years from retirement, or 10 years away, is likely to be employed at primary properly being centres. She said that they are going to’t be known as with out a medical diploma, they might very properly be known as ‘semi-doctors’.

She said that whereas docs write prescriptions, nurses implement them, they usually’re resulting from this reality licensed to cope with victims. ‘Check the legal issues. They can give first aid by giving saline, oxygen and life-giving medicine,’ the CM knowledgeable the officers.

‘Those who have been for a long time, who may have 5-7-10 years left to retire… see if they can do it or not. You don’t must enter licensed points as soon as extra in the whole thing. The side of humanity should even be seen. Attending to a affected individual is the first exercise of the properly being division. Giving the affected individual saline, giving oxygen and life-sustaining drugs, they will help stabilize the affected individual,’ she added.

In one different proposal to increase the number of healthcare workers, Mamata Banerjee said that new nurses is likely to be employed after a training of merely 15 days. The CM argued that the job of a nurse may very well be very straightforward and it mustn’t take better than 15 days to educate them.

‘Administering bandage, saline, injection, oxygen or proper medicine, 15 days is enough to train them for that. Nurses will not do surgery after all. Moreover, senior nurses are there for complex works,’ she said. The CM added that such nurses is likely to be considered junior nurses, and given teaching accordingly. She moreover requested the officers to look into opening 100 additional nursing teaching institutes in every district.

Mamata Banerjee moreover made comparable methods to refill vacancies in several departments as correctly. She ordered to complete the recruitment of all police posts inside the next three months, asking to reduce their teaching interval to seven days in its place of six months. She said she feels that teaching of six months for cops is a ‘waste of time’.

She said, “Instead of six months, send them to the police station with seven days of training. Increase the force and then call them for seven days of every month and train them. That is, they work 21 days of the month and complete the rest of the process with training for the remaining seven days. I feel that training for such a long time is a waste of time.”