Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya visits Safdarjung Hospital

Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare has visited Safdarjung Hospital today and had an informal interactive session with Heads of Departments and Staff of the Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College. 

Today, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Mansukh Mandaviya went to the Safdarjung Hospital and spent more than 2.5 hours with the heads of various departments, nurses, heads of security and sanitation services and had an informal interactive session with them.

He listened to their numerous suggestions on patient-centred high-quality healthcare provision, infection control measures, sanitation processes, quality hospital management, and clinical practices.

Mansukh Mandaviya said, “Our goal should be on how to provide the best healthcare to every patient who walks in. When we have clarity on this goal and our resultant role, all our actions will also become clear and action-oriented.”

“No one should feel that absenteeism and poor performance shall go unnoticed”, he emphasized. The Union Health Minister exhorted all HoDs to evaluate the performance and attendance of all employees at all levels including the security and contractual staff to ensure that absenteeism and poor-quality work is effectively addressed. He encouraged the teams in each department to not only achieve superior targets but sustain high-performance standards. “It is easy to achieve very high performance for a short time, but extremely difficult to sustain such exemplary standards of healthcare delivery”, he added.

He also said that it is now time to develop our healthcare model and show to the world our strengths in various aspects of healthcare, pharma and R&D” and he also congratulated the hospital for receiving the 1st Kayakalp Award of INR 3 Crore.

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