UP Health Dept Reassigns 36 Specialists From PHCs To District Hospitals And CHCs To Improve Patient Care

The UP government is taking steps to streamline health services after officials in several districts exceeded their authority by posting 36 medical specialists at Primary Health Centres (PHCs), despite the availability of district hospitals and Community Health Centres (CHCs) for specialist care.

These specialists, including ENT surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, paediatricians, eye surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, and physicians, were stationed at PHCs where services are limited to outpatient care until 4 PM, and emergency services are not operational. As a result, patients from district hospitals are being referred to higher centres unnecessarily.

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Following a government review, orders have been issued to remove the specialists from PHCs and redeploy them to district hospitals and CHCs. The directives also prohibit posting any specialists at PHCs in the future.

Dr Seema Gupta, Additional Director of Medical and Health, Meerut Zone, stated that the move aims to strengthen district-level healthcare and ensure that specialist services are accessible where they are most needed.

Among the specialists affected are:

-ENT Surgeons: Mridul Kumar Tiwari (Chitrakoot)

-Orthopaedic Surgeons: Haribansh Yadav (Ayodhya), Shehanshah Alam (Balrampur), Akash Gautam (Firozabad), Surendra Kumar (Sultanpur)

-Paediatricians: Omprakash (Deoria), Bharat Chand Yadav (Mirzapur), Arvind Kumar Singh (Sonbhadra), Sher Muhammad (Varanasi)

-Eye Surgeons: Madhavi Singh (Barabanki), Juhi Saxena (Moradabad), Siraj Ahmed (Moradabad)

-Physicians: Anand Prakash Tripathi (Balrampur), Sandeep Kumar (Balrampur), Sakshi Singh (Kannauj), Shravan Kumar Madheshia (Lucknow), Hemant Kumar Nayak (Sant Kabir Nagar)

-Radiologists: Ashok Kumar (Gautam Buddh Nagar)

-Pathologists: Saumya Gupta (Lucknow), Astha Chaudhary (Saharanpur)

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-Psychiatrists: Vinod Kumar (Lakhimpur Kheri), Yusuf Khan (Shravasti)

-Public Health Specialists: Prachi Singh (Bareilly), Ashish Kumar Singh (Chandauli), Smita Yadav (Firozabad), Ruchi Yadav (Firozabad), Shashi Shekhar (Mathura), Ankur Tyagi (Meerut), Amarnath Singh (Sitapur)

-Gynaecologist: Riti Singh (Varanasi)

-Physiologist: Rajnish Gupta (Sultanpur)

Officials have been instructed to ensure that specialists are deployed at appropriate centres to improve patient care and reduce unnecessary referrals.