BJP MP from Bengaluru South Tejasvi Surya who has been playing an important role in ensuring beds are made available to those who actually need has made four key changes to the BBMP Bed Booking System.
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Here are some of the reforms brought about in the booking system.
Reform 1: Manual unblocking cannot be done anymore which was considered to be the biggest loophole used by miscreants to make proxy bookings. This has now been disabled. If a patient needs to be shifted to a different hospital, then a rebooking can be done.
Reform 2: SMS alert will be sent to patients with details of beds booked in their name as in many instances beds were booked in patients’ names without their knowledge. Now, patients will get an SMS with details of bed type and the hospital where beds are booked in their names.
Reform 3: Two-Factor authenticated person-specific logins have been activated. Earlier, war rooms had generic logins with common username used by multiple people. Bookings will now be tagged to individuals, thereby bringing in transparency and accountability.
Reform 4: Reservation time of bed has been reduced to 4 hrs. Auto-unblock time of a bed, where a bed is automatically unbooked if a patient doesn’t report for admission for 10 hrs seemed to be too long. Now, bed booking is valid only for 4 hours with an option to re-block in exceptional cases.
The MP’s office has been coordinating with senior officials and tech volunteers to bring about changes in the bed booking system after severe malpractices were detected.
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