Bihar

• 06 May 2023

Mission Change

Why in News?

On 4 May 2023, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Prasad Yadav launched ‘Mission Parivartan’ on the lines of ‘Mission 60 Days’ to improve the health of all medical college hospitals.

Key Points:

• The main objective of this mission is to make hospitals Patient-Friendly, to enforce discipline in colleges and to arrange treatment based on manpower.
• Apart from this, this mission also includes cleanliness in medical colleges, and hospitals, waiting rooms for patients and relatives to sit, installation of signages, and the establishment of 'May I Help You' desks.
• Along with the launching of the mission, the task has been given to the treatment in the medical colleges to make full use of the manpower available in the college.
• The performance will have to be shown by improving the basic facilities of medical colleges. Medical colleges will be reviewed again in 1 month, so that it can be assessed how much change is visible in the direction of working style, system and treatment.
• The Deputy Chief Minister has directed the colleges to ensure that evening rounds should be held every day and ward rounds should be conducted by a doctor at least of the rank of assistant professor.
• 611 essential medicines should be available in all medical colleges so that the burden on the pocket of patients is reduced.