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The first day of the Rajasthan state government's Chief Minister's Free Diagnostic Test Scheme went off without a hitch but the health department is expecting more patients to visit the hospital on Monday. At Sawai Man Singh (SMS) hospital, over 411 patients underwent 1,272 blood and urine tests while 70 underwent an ECG. As many as 197 patients underwent X-ray and 66 went for a sonography. Officials said that all these tests were provided for free under the aforementioned scheme.
SMS hospital superintendent Dr Virendra Singh said, 'We cannot rule out any teething problems in the initial stage of the scheme. But we are ready to tackle any sorts of problems. We are aware that on Monday the number would be much more compared to what we saw today.'
Meanwhile the situation at other hospitals weren't very high. Kanwatia hospital principal medical officer Hari Om Sharma said: 'We were expecting a huge rush on the first day but normally on Sundays the patients' arrival remain less than weekdays. We are prepared to provide free test facilities when the number of patients would be higher on Monday.'
The hospital's estimate is that there would be an increase of 30% in the number of patients coming to the hospital on normal days after the launch of the free test scheme.