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The Telangana Health section is moving towards a large revamp of the Integrated Hospital Facility Management Services (IHFMS) to code persistent gaps successful sanitation, information and diligent enactment services crossed authorities hospitals, with a important summation successful per-bed tariff and manpower spot connected the anvil, according to Director of Medical Education (DME) A. Narendra Kumar.
IHFMS is simply a government-run outsourcing strategy that manages non-clinical services successful authorities hospitals, including sanitation, housekeeping, biomedical and wide discarded disposal, security, diligent attraction assistants, pest power and related installation services. Under the model, hospitals wage a fixed per-bed tariff to a azygous agency, which successful crook deploys a prescribed fig of workers per 100 beds to guarantee cleanliness, information and basal diligent support
Under the existing IHFMS framework, hospitals person 45 outsourced workers per 100 beds, comprising 19 sanitation workers, 13 information unit and 13 diligent attraction assistants. Dr. Narendra Kumar said the authorities is present readying to fortify this operation by expanding manpower, revising qualification norms and raising tariff rates to bespeak rising operational costs.
The IHFMS policy, archetypal introduced successful 2017 and revised successful 2022, volition acquisition different revision successful 2026. As portion of the projected changes, the per-bed tariff is expected to beryllium accrued from the existent level of astir ₹7,500 to astir ₹9,500. The hike factors successful ostentation and the escalating costs of consumables specified arsenic cleaning chemicals and different indispensable materials utilized successful infirmary maintenance.
“The earlier revision successful 2022 raised the tariff from ₹5,600 to astir ₹7,500 per bed. Since then, costs person continued to rise, making different revision unavoidable,” Dr. Narendra Kumar said. The revised connection has been placed earlier the Health Minister. Once cleared, it volition beryllium sent to the Finance Department for approval.
Dr. Narendra Kumar besides pointed to shortcomings successful pest and rodent power nether the existent system, noting that lone Agriculture Department-certified unit are authorised to transportation retired specified work. “This norm is not being followed uniformly, starring to ineffective pest power successful respective hospitals. As portion of the revised IHFMS guidelines, stricter enforcement of certification requirements and improved chemic usage volition beryllium mandated,” helium added.
