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Mobile Governance to alert bed in charge doctors -MR Bangur hospital shows the way

After successfully launching ePrescription and online admission in selected District hospitals in West Bengal, mobile governance tool has been launched by Swasthya Bhawan to issue sms alerts to specialist doctors about patient details as soon as new patient is admitted.  Server based online admission process has been linked to free sms gateway and system generated alerts are sent to doctor concerned.
This is improved and reliable way of alerting doctors instead of on call communication. There are plans to up scale the initiative.

RSBY in Government Hospitals in West Bengal : Sitai Block Hospital in Cooch Behar claimed Rs 20 lakhs from insurance in last 7 months and extended cashless treatments.

West Bengal started RSBY in Block hospitals after success in Secondary and Tertiary care hospitals. There has been manifold increase in income of Government hospitals from RSBY by providing cashless free indoor treatment supplementing the Rogi Kalyan Samities. With highest number of live smart cards 60 lakhs covering 212 lakhs individual, West Bengal is at the top in the country. 2.51 lakhs got free cashless treatment through network of 747 hospitals claiming Rs 168 Cr in last seven months out of which Rs 130 Cr is settled.
While secondary and Tertiary Hospitals are leading in performance in terms of volume of cases, small block primary hospital of Sitai in Cooch Behar shows the way to others by earning more than many district hospitals. Sitai covered 375 indoor patients under RSBY claiming Rs 20.4 lakhs from Insurance Company during February 2014 to October 2014. This is very good performance of Block level hospital and sets good trend as most of the cases are general medicine unlike surgeries in case of private nursing homes under the scheme. Team of Doctors and health personnel deserves appreciation.
This is great step to achieve self sufficiency to run hospital services without user charges and bed charges and strengthen the efforts of State Policy declared recently. Another hospital,  Haldibari Rural hospital earned Rs 11.18 lakhs from 381 cases during the same period.
While holding review workshops with Bdos and hospitals at CHINUSRAH on 14th November pleased to note that Jangipara Block hospital BMOH also performed quite well under RSBY. There are numerous examples of good performing Government hospitals showing path and good future of the scheme.