Health Minister T. Harish Rao has underlined the need for improving sanitation conditions in government hospitals.
He wanted the hospitals to display diet menu comprising the details of diet that would be provided to patients thrice a day. The Minister reviewed the functioning of State-run hospitals with senior officials on Sunday. He wanted the officials concerned to ensure that proper sanitation was maintained within the hospitals as well as places abutting them.
The government was implementing new sanitation and diet policies in the hospitals and had accordingly enhanced the sanitation charges for each bed from ₹5,000 to ₹7,500 while diet charges had been doubled to ₹80 from ₹40. He wanted steps to be initiated to see that bills pertaining to sanitation and diet contracts as well as salaries of personnel engaged in the works were paid in time.
