Sunday, August 8, 2010

iesm and echs by Maj Gen Satish Chandra

From: Satish Jalota [mailto:satishjalota@gmail.com]
Sent: 05 August 2010 04:25
To: rpchaturvedi@gmail.com
Cc: Kamboj Chander
Subject: iesm and echs

I have read the suggestion from Maj Mehandru. Very good idea.
The iesm group takes the suggestions but does not give any feed back.

Recently I had sent some points which had gone to the GM echs and AG , even before IESM came into being.

Communication----why a second phone without STD facility cannot be there in a Poly? There are recieve only phones too.
Why the entire ECHS Org has Mobiles but no number for us to contact them in emergency?
Why the Fax is switched off at night ?
Why there is no toll free number for a region?
Answers are simple: the serving officers running the org do not want to be disturbed.
Solution If there are no funds, ask people to donate money. Have the will and a plan.I ahve

Civil Hospitals
1 Continue with present system. It suits the Babus.
2 Accept the suggestion from Mj Mendru.
3 You fix your charges and I pay the balance, but let me go where ever I want to go. My recent experience with Max and Medanta has been wonderful.
4 Get ESMS from our mecical services to guide the serving officers in the ECHS Org and Station HQ, to be flexible.

Hearing Aids
This area is real racket. One or two vendors have grabbed the field. Even if I need a simple and low cost machine, they want to sell a high value stuff. THE SOLUTION LIES IN getting in more vendors, at least for AUDIOMETRY and arriving at correct solution. Then, the favoured ones by the ECHS should be asked to produce that stuff. ( THESE

Maj Gen Satish Chandra(Retd)
Ex Technical Adviser Defense-London and Director , National Range for Missiles.
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