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| SMGS faces shortage of doctors, nursing staff and space | | Hospital modernization just an eyewash | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 23: Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) Hospital, predominantly a gynae and paediatrics hospital, here finds the going tough in the wake of an acute shortage of doctors, nurses and paramedical staff.
On an average, 60 to 70 women deliver babies every 24 hours at the hospital’s 48-bedded labour room, that includes about 20 caesarean cases, and to perform the deliveries, besides attending to obstetrician cases and OPD patients, the hospital has nearly 20 gynaecologists, excluding eight registrars. A heavy rush at the 550-bedded hospital, which on any given day has over 100 per cent bed occupancy, continues to take a heavy toll on hospital staff, said a nurse.
While quarrels between attendants and hospital staff over patient care occurred regularly, the main problem was the acute shortage of staff, she said. The nursing staff particularly had been overstretched and to aggravate our miseries the government had turned a Nelson’s eye to our problems and demands, including a pay hike, she added.
“Despite constraints, we discharge our duties. But it seems the government does not want to look into our problems,” said another nurse, who admitted that patient care had suffered a setback. Similarly, the paediatrics department, too, reflected a grim picture.
Official sources said the paediatrics department had 200 beds, but just seven paediatricians.
They added though a new 200-bedded super specialty paediatric block had almost been completed, as per norms we needed at least 80 to 90 nurses and eight more paediatricians to run it smoothly. Raising structures without proper staff would serve no purpose, they said.
“As per AIIMS norms, there should be one nurse for three beds. But at present we have a skeletal staff,” they said, adding that at times when 200 beds in the paediatrics department proved insufficient and we had to accommodate two to three infants along with their mothers on a single bed. A senior administrative official candidly admitted that the hospital faced a severe crisis and the government should adopt corrective measures immediately.
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