The Medical Officer will be organizing and performing duties necessary for the routine Outpatient services and also ensure emergency cases are attended and taken care of.
He/she will screen cases needing specialized medical attention, refer them to referral institutions and will cooperate and coordinate with other institutions providing medical care services in his/ her area.
He/ she will attend all calls from the in-patients, while he/ she is ‘on-call duty’
As a member of the health care team, he/she will exemplify an example in attitude toward patients and staff, thereby, performing duties with respect, dignity, privacy, and modesty to the patients.
He/ she will be friendly, courteous and sympathetic while working with patients and ensure privacy and confidentiality of the patients.
He/she will perform any other duties which a Medical Officer is expected to perform in view of his position and any other duties which will be assigned as and when required.
Public Health Work
He/she will make arrangements and provide guidance for rendering health care services at the community level and at the PHC through the Health Assistants, Health Workers and others.
The Medical Officer will ensure that all the members of his/her Health Team are fully conversant with the various National Health & Family Welfare Programs including NHM to be implemented in the area allotted to each Health functionary.
He/she will prepare operational plans and ensure effective implementation of the same to achieve the laid down targets under different National Health and Family Welfare Programmes.
Any services, speciality or otherwise, being rendered in the hospital, its quality delivery and other necessary coordination will be ensured by the MO
The MO will ensure the effective implementation of all National Health Programmes – Reproductive and Child Health Programme, Universal Immunization Programme, National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, National Programme for control of Blindness, Non-Communicable Diseases Programmes, National Mental Health Programme, Control of Communicable Diseases, Leprosy, Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Ayushman Bharat
He/she will be responsible for proper and successful implementation of the Programmes in PHC area, including education, motivation, delivery of services and aftercare.
He/she will be responsible for all administrative and technical matters regarding the operations of National Health Programmes in his/her UHWC area.
He/she will be responsible for all Health Education activities in his/her area.
He/she will take the necessary steps for institutionalizing public health surveillance and undertake timely actions in case of any outbreak of epidemic in his/her area.
Administrative Work
He/she will supervise the work, scrutinize the programmes of his/her staff and suggest changes if necessary to suit the priority of work of staff working under him/her.
He/she will hold monthly staff meetings to evaluate the progress of work and suggest steps to be taken for further improvements
He/she will ensure the maintenance of the prescribed records and registers at AAPLA DAWAKHANA level and will issue various kinds of certificates in the capacity of a medical officer.
He/she will ensure that the problems and grievances of the staff are solved promptly.
He/she will ensure the confidentiality of the patients
He/she will take actions timely for legal matters, medico-legal cases, RTIs, court cases and expeditions implementation of orders of the courts.
He/she will organize training programmes including continuing education for the staff
He/she will assess the performance of the staff and arrange for retraining if required.
He/she will ensure appropriate utilization of funds as per the guidelines and GFR (General Financial Rules) provisions.
He/she will ensure auditing procedures are completed well in advance, and audit reports are furnished to all the concerned authorities.
He/she will ensure inter-sectoral/ inter- departmental coordination; involvement of community leaders, various social welfare agencies and people for effective provision of patient centric healthcare.
He/ She will be involved in ‘performance audit’ of staff as per the guidelines of ‘Performance Audit’.
He/ She will facilitate, coordinate, supervise, monitor and implement the provisions of all the health sector Acts and the Rules.
