Visit to RSBY help desk counter at Diamond Harbour District hospital

RSBY in Government hospitals in West Bengal: There were only 25 Government hospitals under RSBY enlisted to extend cashless indoor treatment services till September 2013. Now, 747 hospitals are enlisted including 127 government hospitals. There are plans to cover all Hospitals up to Block by March 2015.
Rogi Sahayata Kendra, RSK with five Rogi Sahayaks in Government hospitals are very helpful to facilitate admission and free cashless treatment. Diamond Harbour hospital earns Rs 12 lakhs from Insurance Companies by doing RSBY in last 7 months. This amount is adequate enough to take care of RKS expenditure. Happy to interact with RSKs.
Total Rs 15 Crores earned by Government hospitals in last 7 months as against only Rs 2 Crores last year. Private hospitals earned Rs 150 Crores. Hope the proportionate share of Government hospitals is doubled by end of current financial year.

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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.