Daily
Pioneer: Raipur: Friday, November 16, 2012.
In spite of
the high death toll at the largest Government hospital of the State, Dr Bhimrao
Ambedkar Memorial Hospital has not recruited a single expert in any of the
departments since 2007.
Though the
State Government passes numerous healthcare schemes for the people, but the
ground reality speaks that people were neglected from the welfare schemes. Not
only is the death toll rising but the number of patients is also increasing at
an alarming rate. The hospital is completely failing to meet the rising demands
due to staff crunch. A large number of experts have retired from the posts
whereas the others continue to leave the hospitals but the administration
continues to remain ignorant towards filling the vacant seats.
“Recruitment
process is not an easy task and it takes lots of time. We have forwarded the
request of fresh recruitment to the hospital administration but it will take
time”, stated Dr AP Padarah, assistant superintendent and public information
officer of the hospital.
Though the
hospital administration continues to assure of undertaking recruitment but the
information acquired through RTI sings a completely different tone. According
to information, the largest Government hospital of the State has three doctors,
212 staff nurses and 14 other members whereas not even a single radiographer
and anaesthesiast has been appointed since 2007.
According to
data acquired under RTI, 2290, 2437, 1727, 2638, 2861, 1628 people have lost
their lives at the hospital from 2007 to 2012 respectively.
Recently five
radiographers have left the hospital as they got better opportunity. Now the
Radiology department is working with only two radiographers who are forced to
attend over 200 patients daily.
Dr Vishnu
Dutta, head of the Radiology department, said, “We urgently need at least 15
experts to deal with patients in the department.” He added that management has
not recruited any radiographer for the last nine years and his urgent demand
only got assurances.
The same
condition is also prevailing at the Anaesthesia department as there are only
two seniors and three associate professors to handle 12 operation theatres
(OT). An official from the Anesthesia department informed that for per OT,
there is need of two anaesthesiologists. Dr KK Saharey, working at the
Anaesthesia department said due to the lack of experienced professionals, the
department is functioning with the help of PG students from the medical
college. He added the performance of the PG students have been satisfactory and
they are cashing in on the opportunity to receive first-hand experience.
Dr Padarah
said, “The hospital conducts over 8,000 major and 10,000 minor operations every
year where about 30 per cent people die”. He further states as certain
patients, with minimum hope of survival, are referred to the Government
hospital thus the hospital’s death toll is really high.
Though the hospital
authorities continue to come up with excuses and claims to cover up for the
deep holes in the services, the careless attitude of the hospital is forcing
the people of the State to move towards more expensive private hospitals.
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