The health department has asked the hospital to hand over assets.
The ten year contract of the state health department with the Fortis hospital for super speciality treatment in cardiac disease ended on Monday. In a letter directed to the Manager of the Fortis hospital, the chief medical superintendent (CMS) of the Dehradun district hospital Dr Manoj Upreti formally ended the contract with the hospital.
In the letter Dr Upreti said that the contract with the hospital is ending on March 8 and the hospital should now hand over all the assets to the department. Upreti told The Pioneer that the Fortis would hand over the assets within four to five day. The management of the Fortis hospital also confirmed that the hospital has stopped treating the patients of government hospital as its contract has ended.
It is pertinent to mention here that the state health department entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Fortis Hospital in March 2011. Under the contract an entire floor of the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya (Coronation) hospital was handed over to the hospital. The government also provided other assets to the hospital. The data of the hospital suggests that in the last ten years more than 30000 patients were admitted in the hospital. About 100 cardiac surgeries and 150 non invasive (stent) operations are done in the hospital in a month.
The hospital has a staff of more than 125 and it caters to the superspeciality treatment in cardiac care to many districts of Garhwal division. The director general of state health services, Dr Tripti said that the experts of cardiology are now available in the Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital and many private hospitals are in the panel of Atal Ayushman Uttarakhand Yojana (AAUY) so it was felt that there is no need to renew the contract with the Fortis hospital.
Tuesday, 09 March 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
