Through the Student Healthcare policy, students are provided healthcare services for problems, which may develop during the students stay at Central Park Medical College.
The intent of this policy is to provide access to preventive and therapeutic health services to all the students and maintain general well-being of students during their stay at Central Park Medical College. For this purpose, a team of healthcare personnel and an interdepartmental referral mechanism is in place. The healthcare personnel team includes student healthcare in charge and the chief medical officer of Central Park Teaching Hospital.
The Student Healthcare Policy has been envisaged as a no profit, no-loss plan. There is no subscription fee for students. It provides medical cover for day-to-day medical problems and enables access to required medical aid in emergencies during their educational period at Central Park Medical College.
The following aspects are covered through the Student Healthcare Policy
- Free registration as OPD patient
- Out-patient management of the day-to-day problems.
- Free consultation
- Free emergency services for all CPMC students
- Referral for Psychological counseling to CPMC counseling center
- Free indoor beds and discounted private room facility according to bed availability
- Discounted surgical procedure charge
- Discounted operation theater services charges
- No nursing care charges
- Discounted laboratory investigations
- Discounted X-Ray, ultrasonography and Doppler scan
- Discounted ambulance facilities
This policy provides cover to full-time students only. It does not cover students on electives, on part-time programmes and students on study leaves.
THE FOLLOWING ASPECTS ARE COVERED THROUGH THE STUDENT HEALTHCARE POLICY:
- Free registration as OPD patient
- Out-patient management of the day-to-day problems.
- Free consultation by consultants
- Free emergency services for all CPMC students
- Referral for Psychological counseling to CPMC counseling center
- Free admission
- Free indoor beds and discounted private room facility according to bed availability
- Discounted surgical procedure charge
- Discounted operation theatre services charges
- No nursing care charges
- Discounted laboratory investigations
- Discounted X-Ray, ultrasonography
- Discounted ambulance facilities
POLICY FOR SICK LEAVE
- Student Healthcare in charge will assess and sign the sick leave application given by students. Every sick leave application has to be countersigned by the Dean CPMC. A student sick leave application will be saved for every student to keep a log of all their sick leaves.
- If a student is observed to avail sick leave on regular basis with or without any genuine reason, the case will be reported to the Dean’s Office. It is the Dean’s Office policy to communicate the same to the students’ parents.
- It remains the student’s responsibility to inform their program coordinators in a timely manner about their sick leave.