Rs 2.97 crore approved for Una hospital

Rs2.97 crore approved for Una hospital

UNA, SEPTEMBER 23

The Rogi Kalyan Samiti of the Una District Hospital today approved a budget of Rs 2.97 crore for the financial year.

At a meeting presided over by DC Vikas Labroo, the samiti also gave ex-post facto approval for an excess expenditure of Rs 88 lakh, incurred during the last financial year.

The hospital authorities are directed to make operational the computerised blood testing machine for hormone tests. The machine, costing about Rs 23 lakh, is gathering dust due to lack of laboratory technician for more than a year. The DC directed the Chief Medical Officer to ensure that the doctors prescribe generic medicines which were available at cheap rates. While the Health Department has issued directions to all government medical officers to prescribe generic medicines to cut down on health expenditure, the doctors had been defying orders. — OC