Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Department of Health and Family Welfare issued new guidelines for referrals to CGHS empanelled Hospitals in CGHS cities outside Delhi, where there are no Central Government hospitals vide Memo No.RA/Cons/Hyd/09-10/CGS IV dated 11/06/2010.It has come to the notice of the Department of Health and Family Welfare that GHS benificiaries residing in cities outside Delhi are facing difficulties in getting services of specialists from State Government hospitals and they cannot avail services directly from private empanelled hospitals.It Clarified that"If posts of Specialist are lying vacant in polyclinics, GDMOs, who are post graduates may be posted in polyclinics for consultation, and on the basis of the advise/opinion to be tendered by them, CMO incharge, AD/JDs may refer patients to private empanelled hospitals and diagnostic centres, according to the choice of the benificiary" and it is also calrified that "once a diagnosis and treatment has been advised by the specialist doctors in dispensaries may follow up the case instead of referring back after the specific period of the prescription gets exhausted. They have to use their own clinical judgement for follow-up and adjust the dose schedules, if required".Please click the below link to get the full text of the order copy.
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