 Early Times Report
Jammu, May 6: Even after completing its 78th year of foundation, Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) Hospital is still acutely short of infrastructure.
Attendants of in-patients usually spend day as well as nights on dirty floors like homeless people in the absence of proper arrangement for them, creating hardship for treating doctors to reach out during emergency calls.
"The prestigious SMGS Hospital Jammu even doesn't have benches outside the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) as well as Labour Room, where the attendants are compelled to sit or lie on the dirty and infected floors," a senior doctor told Early Times, wishing not to be named.
He said chairs were not placed by the management, despite knowing the requirement, where the attendants could sit and wait for their patients' call. Pertinently, patients' relatives do visit the hospital to enquire about the health of the patients as entry inside the NICU and labour room is restricted. They have to wait outside to respond to the call of doctors or other staff of the respective wards for arranging medicines for the patients.
Owing to lackadaisical approach of the authorities concerned, the attendants have to sit on the floor for hours together. But despite being aware of the difficulties of the attendants of the patients, the management of the hospital turned a deaf ear, the doctor stated, adding that attendants are also taxpayers and they deserve better and healthy environment at this most important institution. |
