Anantapur MLA warns of action against doctors failing to attend duty on time

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Anantapur MLA Daggubati Venkateswara Prasad inspecting the Government General Hospital successful  metropolis  connected  Wednesday.

Anantapur MLA Daggubati Venkateswara Prasad inspecting the Government General Hospital successful metropolis connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: R.V.S. PRASAD

Anantapur MLA Daggubati Venkateswara Prasad warned of strict enactment against doctors failing to support punctuality successful attending their duties.

Mr. Prasad made a astonishment sojourn to the Government General Hospital successful Anantapur connected Wednesday greeting and recovered that immoderate of the doctors had not attended to their duties adjacent astatine 9.30 a.m.. The MLA inspected the country wherever out-patients slips are given, assorted departments, in-patient wards and pharmacy. He interacted with the patients and enquired astir the aesculapian services astatine the hospital. Some of them complained astir doctors not attending their duties connected time.

As galore doctors failed to be to their duties by 9.30 a.m., helium enquired astir the reasons for the hold and the clip till OP services would beryllium fixed with Hospital Superintendent Dr. Subramanyam. He asked the Superintendent to instrumentality enactment against those failed to be to their duties connected time.

Mr. Prasad besides enquired astir the fig of in-patients, out-patients, and the facilities astatine the hospital.

Speaking connected the occasion, Mr. Prasad said that though the facilities astatine the infirmary were satisfactory, the patients were facing problems arsenic the fig of beds has not been accrued from 500 successful the past 20 years. He said that the fig of in-patients was betwixt 2,000 to 2,500 and the out-patient fig stood astatine 1,200. However, the facilities, fund and unit was not capable to conscionable the demand.

The MLA said that the contented had already been discussed astatine the infirmary improvement committee gathering and was taken up with Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav. He said the infirmary volition soon beryllium upgraded to 1,200 beds and warned of enactment against immoderate unit demanding oregon accepting wealth from the patients.

Published - October 29, 2025 07:35 p.m. IST

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