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| Overcrowding in Gandhi Nagar Hospital troublesome for patients | | | Pardeep Singh
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, November 10: When it comes to management at any front, the city of temples depicts a very grimy view. Hospitals or any such medicare complexes which though are the places where silence should be observed, the overcrowding in these areas has emerged as a major problem both for the patients as well as the doctors catering to the needs of thousands of patients.
The latter however allege that every now and then doctors deny admission to them which leaves them in despair.
Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar, is one such hospital where the patients as well as the doctors face problems every now and then due to the overcrowding. This hospital is catering to huge number of patients from Jammu and its adjoining areas at par excellence having almost all the facilities available for the patients, but overcrowding in the hospital premises turns it into troublesome for the patients and is irritating for doctors.
The patients allege that idle overcrowding in the hospital causes huge noise pollution and which is quite infuriating. The patients are denied the admission , because of the overcrowded wards, so they have to go to the other private hospitals.
On an average 1000 patients attend the Out Patient Departments (OPDs).
As per official records, the hospital remains packed with 90 percent of the indoor patients on daily basis.
Irritated with the patients flow, an appalling episode was witnessed in the hospital in October, where a doctor refused admitting Brij Kumar of Bihar who was crying with pain. This resulted in the resentment among the relatives of the patients. These are the common problems which emerge every now and then.
State government had sketched out a plan to thin out this problem and
established new block with all latest necessities, but the menace of the overcrowding refuses to die.
“Government had discharged its duty successfully to separate the hospital into different blocks to thin out the crowd but the condition of the hospital is going bad to worse, with more and more crowd, mostly in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology swelling every day,” said an attendant, Neeraj.
He alleged that on one side where the hospitals in the Jammu region are craving for staff, this hospital is stuffed with number of nurses and ward boys. The hospital has nurses, who do their internship with the hospital, alleged the attendant.
Patients also accused hospital authorities for not providing medicines to the needful patients.
“We provide only injections to the patients that too pain killers, we are not empowered to provide medicines as we lack many of them ,” said an hospital official, wishing anonymity.
Terming overcrowding good sign for the hospital, newly appointed superintendent, Dr Madhu Khullar said, “It is good to have over crowded hospitals and to prevent any inconvenience to patients we are working to streamline it and hopefully we will overcome it in the coming months. We have most overcrowding in Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and for that hospital administration have asked authorities for a separate ward”.
“We had a meeting with paramedical staff, where it was instructed to them that they have to work in shifts,” said Dr Madhu, adding that the hospital is still short of dozen nurses to execute work properly.
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