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Be
polite and shed arrogance: Khanvilkar exhorts doctors
PTI
- Mumbai
After
giving a subsidy to the tune of Rs 70,000 crore towards medical
education, the state government expects the doctors to go to the
interiors and treat patients
Maharashtra health minister, Digvijay Khanvilkar requested members
of medical profession recently to be ‘polite and shed arrogance’
while treating patients who come to them with high hopes.
Khanvilkar was addressing a meeting held at the collectorate here,
to discuss recent attacks on a couple of hospitals following death
of patients.
Later talking to reporters, he said, the state government had requested
the union health ministry to make available funds for upgrading
facilities at government and municipality owned hospitals and medical
colleges in Mumbai, Pune, Aurangabad and Nagpur.
‘The
state government was giving subsidy to the tune of Rs 70,000 crore
for medical education and expected doctors to go to the interiors
and treat patients’, he said.
The state tribal welfare minister and Thane district incharge, Madhukar
Pichad who was also present at the meeting said, citizens should
not take law in their hands and assured of an impartial probe into
the attacks on hospitals.
‘Core-committees
would be formed in the district to deal with such issues,’
Pichad announced.
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