Railway Hospital to enlist medical experts from outside

The 90-year-old Railway Hospital at Golden Rock here has proposed to empanel eminent medical experts of various specialities to provide professional services on a case-to-case basis to the beneficiaries.

This is the second year that the hospital authorities have decided to empanel specialists and super specialists from outside to provide quality healthcare to the serving and retired railway employees and their families.

The railway administration would pay the empanelled medical experts for their consultation services and surgical procedures and fix the fee structure for them in this regard.

The hospital authorities have identified 17 specialities including cardiology, urology, nephrology, dermatology, laprascopic surgery, oral and maxillo-facial surgeon, oncology, ENT, gynaecology, psychiatry and orthopaedic surgery in which it has proposed to empanel eminent doctors from outside.

The empanelled medical experts would provide their services at the Railway Hospital for a period of one year.

The empanelling of specialists and super specialists is proposed to be done as per Railway Board guidelines, the hospital authorities said.

The hospital authorities have already set the process in motion by calling for expression of interest with respect to empanelling of medical experts.

For a period of one year

Since the Railway Hospital at Golden Rock does not have all specialities, it was decided to empanel specialists and super specialists on a case-to-case basis for a period of one year to provide quality healthcare to the beneficiaries, the hospital’s Chief Medical Superintendent R. Soundararajan said.

The 197-bed Railway Hospital at Golden Rock at present has a couple of ortho surgeons, an anaesthetist, one general surgeon, couple of ophthalmologists, an ENT surgeon, a gynaecologist, dental surgeon, a couple of general physicians and a paediatrician.

The empanelled medical experts would be called for providing their services as and when required, Dr. Soundararajan said adding that surgical procedures if advised by the specialists would also be done at the hospital itself.

The hospital authorities have already started receiving applications from specialists after it called for expression of interest, said Dr. Soundararajan.

Last year, the hospital had empanelled 17 medical experts from outside. This year it is expected that more specialists of different disciplines would be empanelled.

Dr. Soundararajan said the bed occupancy rate at the hospital was about 55 to 60% adding that new equipment including a digital x-ray costing ₹95 lakh had been purchased.

Source:http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/railway-hospital-to-enlist-medical-experts-from-outside/article20609054.ece