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Patients throng GGH for minor ailments
Patients from rural areas are thronging to the Government General Hospital (GGH) here even for minor ailments. People in villages need not actually visit the GGH as they have Primary Health Centres (PHCs), mandal-level dispensaries and area government hospitals etc.
Anantapur: Patients from rural areas are thronging to the Government General Hospital (GGH) here even for minor ailments. People in villages need not actually visit the GGH as they have Primary Health Centres (PHCs), mandal-level dispensaries and area government hospitals etc.
The patients should be referred to GGH by the local hospitals operating at three levels. The patients approaching the district headquarters hospitals even for small ailments as fevers reflect on either the people's lack of confidence in the local hospitals or an impression that GGH will better take care of their ailments.
Highlights:
- A private firm claiming additional bills by enrolling fake patients for CT scan at GGH
- No single Nephrologist at dialysis unit
Several rural patients coming from Kalyandurgam, Rayadurgam, Gooty, Uravakonda, Kuderu and Dharmavaram told The Hans India that lack of proper medical attention at PHCs, absence of doctors and nurses and even medicines and clinical lab facilities drives them to the GGH where the quality of attention and medical treatment are better than rural PHCs. A private company which is operating the CT scan on a PPP mode is accused of misusing the scanning machine by enrolling fake patients for CT scan for claiming additional bills as the government pays them for the CT scan tests of the patients.
Maternity wards where women come for institutional deliveries also need certain facilities like adequate tables for carrying on deliveries and caesarean operations. There are also modern tables with the state of-the art facilities for smooth caesarean operations.
The department of Nephrology which is running a dialysis unit on a PPP mode do not have a single Nephrologist. Nephrologists from other cities visit the hospital once in two months or so. Every day, about 40-50 patients come for dialysis. Also, there are complaints against government doctors for referring patients to a private blood bank where platelets from a single donor is supplied to patients whose blood count had been in the declining side. About 50,000 platelets can be drawn from a single blood donor having 2 lakh platelets.
