Bhubaneswar: Health Minister Pratap
Jena on Thursday suspended four doctors over their alleged negligence in the state government’s Niramaya scheme.
Jena on Thursday suspended four doctors over their alleged negligence in the state government’s Niramaya scheme.
The doctors who were suspended are- Dr Mamata Satpathy, Himanshu Sekhar Nanda, Talcher Sub-Divisional Medical Officer (SDMO) Dr Meena Kumari Dwari and Dr Sanjeev Mohapatra, who was appointed at Kanakpur primary health centre.
Niramaya, the Rs 200-crore free medicine distribution scheme was launched by the state government on May 1, 2015 with an aim to provide medicines to patients for free of cost at all government-run hospitals and district headquarters hospitals.