Uttar Pradesh: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed a group of doctors at King George's Medical College on Wednesday and spoke about various practices that doctors should ply. He also spoke about the ill practices that a few doctors resort to in the profession.

Major takeaways:

  • CM Adityanath urged the doctors to be sensitive towards their patients, and doctors should treat people as their own

  • Adityanath also urged the people to opt medical as their profession and said that “ Five lakh doctors are required in Uttar Pradesh”

  • CM also urged the doctors to spend time speaking to the patients politely saying “Patients get partially cured when someone speaks to them politely”

  • He also lashed out at former CM Akhilesh Yadav saying all eligible doctors were sent to Safai in the past

  • Doctors must not act like gangs and work for blessings than for money: Yogi Adityanath

  • He also asked the doctors to spend some time in speaking to the patients about their problems in detail. He also urged them to maintain records for future references; saying “Good doctors get into details of the patient, maintain records

  • Lashing out at several private hospitals, he said that hospitals are looting patients in the name of check-ups and hand them over long bills

  • Chief Minister Adityanath also said that “government doctors must not resort to private practice and lay their focus of serving in Government hospitals only”