With an aim to upgrade the Dhanbad sadar hospital into a superspeciality facility, the district administration has opened an online portal of the hospital management, from where patients can book appointments for OPD consultations without having to go to the hospital.

The list of doctors along with their disciplines and qualifications are being uploaded on the website, the process of which is likely to be completed within two days.

Dhanbad Deputy Commissioner Uma Shankar Singh made a surprise visit at the hospital in this regard, where he asked nodal officer Dr Rajkumar Singh to make separate chambers for the doctors and arrange necessary medicines. He also asked the authorities to make drinking water facilities available for patients and make the seating arrangement better, so that the aim of making the facility a superspeciality hospital within six months can be achieved soon.

Talking to The Telegraph Online, Singh said that these surprise inspections are necessary to take stock of the progress. “We instructed the nodal officer of the hospital to make separate parking arrangements for two wheeler and four wheeler vehicles, and refurbish the hospital as a whole,” he said.

As per plans, development of a small garden, a children’s park, an auditorium for holding meetings, demolition of some old and dilapidated structures, solar system arrangement are also to be made.

Rajkumar Singh said that the hospital is trying to take in renowned specialist doctors and talks are going on between both the sides at the moment. This is aimed to help people of the economically weaker sections to get better availability of medical facilities at lower rates.

“Once the doctors are engaged the procurement of necessary equipment as per their requirement will be made,” the nodal officer said.