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Patients in a pickle as docs duck duties
The Area Hospital here has earned the dubious distinction of treating patients by ward boys and security guards under the guidance of medical officers, who seems to have developed a phobia to feel the pulse of the patients.Â
Jagtial: The Area Hospital here has earned the dubious distinction of treating patients by ward boys and security guards under the guidance of medical officers, who seems to have developed a phobia to feel the pulse of the patients.
The style of functioning of the hospital did not seem to have changed for better in spite of repeated admonishing of the medical officers by their superiors. The hospital staff here continues to play with the lives of patients. The medical officers of the hospital dread to touch the patient.
Whatever is the nature of the case, emergency or otherwise, it is the unqualified ward boys who stitch the wounds and insert tubes through patients’ nose. People would wonder whether the patients admitted to the hospital will see light at the end of the tunnel, going by the course of treatment being administered here.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- The medical officers at the hospital make ward boys attend the patients whatever may be the condition of the patients.
- Residents enrage at the behaviour of medical officers and are dreadful about the treatment.
- The locals plea to the government to fix the issue
In spite of The Hans India exposing the working style of hospital many times, there was no change in the style of functioning of the hospital. About 10 days ago, a ward boy treated wounds of an accident victim and administered stitches.
When the media exposed it, the hospital authorities banned the entry of media into its premises. Even as the incident was still green in people’s memory, another case of treating a drowning patient by ward boys surfaced.
According to a patient Kiran and a patient’s attendant Madhu, an aged woman of Rampur of Jagtial district, Narsavva, slipped and fell into the Sriram Sagar Project Canal. She was washed away for distance of six kilometres before somebody rescued her and admitted to the Area Hospital here in a serious condition. As usual, the doctors got her treated by ward boys.
Whatever is the case, the routine would be the same: Ward boy treated patients with medical officer standing as a mute spectator near the patient. If it was the case of the non-surgical treatment, people dread to even hazard a guess of how the scene would be in the hospital’s operation theatre.
Patients allege that a new born was dead when a hospital nurse attended to a labour case. This is just a tip of the ice-berg. Residents of the newly formed Jagtial district are incensed at the style of functioning of the Area Hospital for poor quality of the services and breathing fire on the hospital staff.
In fact, the hospital services should have improved in the new district. One can understand the pitiable condition of the hospital patients. The medical officers who are supposed to be accessible to patients round the clock are available at the hospital for only two hours.
It seems there are none to keep tabs on the activities of such medical officers. Unless the government intervenes, there seems to be no guarantee for patients’ lives.
By: Gopalakrishna
