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| Patients at Gandhi Nagar Hospital cry for healing touch | | | PARDEEP SINGH
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 4: Despite the claim of the government that every possible efforts are on to standardize the health sector of the region, here the Gandhi Nagar hospital is facing apathy of the administration and patients left high and dry.
“The mismanagement of the hospital is apparent, as being in immense pain in the morning, they only provided me with pain killer and glucose drip,” said a patient, adding that the shift of the doctors in the night time is mere a formality, as what ENT specialist knows about surgical problems.
Various patients and attendants of the patients alleged that hospital starts functioning after 10 am, whereas only one doctor looks after all the patients before 10 am in the emergency ward of the hospital.
According to officials, senior doctors only perform their duty after 10 am, “normal functioning of the hospital starts after 10 am, the newly OPD section of the hospital also opens after 10am ,” he said wishing anonymity.
When this reporter visited Gandhi Nagar Hospital in the morning hours and found that the allegations chucked by the patients were true, as there was only one ENT specialist with three four ward boys attending patients with casual attitude.
The lethargic attitude of the administration was noticeable, as the emergency ward of the hospital was filled with pile of waste littered on the floor, with patients striving for doctoral care.
When this reporter tried to enter newly constructed OPD ward, the ward was locked from outside with no one to guide patients. It is the same ward where patients are treated and after 10 am.
Moving towards the ticket counter, where patients get the entry tickets for OPD, same was the scene there also, as long queues of attendants and patients waiting for hospital employee to issue entry slips.
A ward boy (name withheld) admitted that the office bearers start their duty after 10 am so that to impress their bosses that the hospital is functioning properly. On asking what if patients were brought at the time other than their schedule, he said “ward boys and some nurses take care of them with pain killers and glucose drip. And if the problem is major, the on duty doctor refers them to GMC, Jammu or SMGS for treatment.”
When contacted superintendent, Hospital, Dr Subash Baghat, he said that he don’t have any knowledge of this issue and no body ever complained about it. “If such is the matter in the hospital premises, I will check the matter and punish the defaulters,” said Dr Bhagat.
He also added that for the convenience of patients, hospital have two doctors for night shift from 8 pm to 8 am, one male and one female for the convenience of patients.
It is pertinent to mention here that it was the same hospital that desisted entry of poor some days back. Some fortnight back, one beggar was dodged out of the hospital reason best known to them. The beggar was wailing all the day outside hospital with pain but they didn’t allow him to enter hospital.
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