KOLLAM: In an effort to secure National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) accreditation for A A Rahim Memorial District Hospital, a host of development activities have been planned by the District Panchayat for the hospital, said District Panchayat president R Gopalakrishna Pillai.Representatives of the District Panchayat and the hospital have already visited the Ernakulam General Hospital which had received the NABH accreditation.A meeting of the medical staff of the District Hospital will be held on Friday to review the facilities. The representatives of the Ernakulam General Hospital are expected to attend the meeting, said Gopalakrishna Pillai.The District Panchayat has allocated Rs 2 lakh for preparing a master plan for the District Hospital and the Victoria Hospital.Rs 70 lakh has been earmarked for maintenance works such as plumbing, painting and landscaping of the ramp between the two hospitals.Rs 30 lakh will be spent for the maintenance works of Victoria Hospital. Rs 50 lakh has been allotted for installing a generator at the hospital, Rs 13 lakh for setting up a mobile mortuary, Rs 4.84 lakh for equipment purchase at SICU and Rs 30 lakh for setting up a laparoscopic surgery unit. Rs 5 lakh will be spent for setting up an autism clinic and Rs 10 lakh for the purchase of medicines.The District Panchayat has also planned projects worth Rs 1.19 crore in the ayurveda sector and projects worth Rs 13.50 lakh in the homoeopathic sector.‘Vested interests behind court case’Gopalakrishna Pillai told reporters here on Monday that certain private scanning centres were trying to destroy the scanning facility at the District Hospital. These vested interests are behind the filing of a case in the High Court alleging irregularities in the functioning of the whole-body scanner installed at the hospital. They had also alleged that the District Panchayat was utilising the profit earned from the service for other purposes.He said that the Rs 1.4-crore whole-body scanner project was part of the District Panchayat’s efforts to provide scanning services to the public at reasonable rates.There is a shortage of staff at the scanning centre and the monitoring committee is utilising the profit to pay remuneration to the staff appointed on contract basis. He said that the District Panchayat would go in appeal against the High Court ruling assigning the District Collector to restructure the rates at the scanning centre. Flaying the District Collector’s decision to reduce the rates fixed by the District Panchayat, he said that it was an intrusion into the powers of the local body.
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