Patients on floor, no stretchers at this MP hospital
Women who went for family planning operations during a medical camp at the government district hospital in Chhatarpur had to lie on the hospital floor and were carried by ward boys and family members in their arms in the absence of stretchers, exposing the dismal condition of healthcare in Madhya Pradesh.
On Saturday, more than 24 operations were performed at the hospital during a medical camp for family planning. After the procedure was over, the ward boys and family members carried the patients in their arms since there were no stretchers available in the hospital. To add to their discomfort, the women were given a thin mattress to lie down on the hospital gallery floor.
Talking about the lack of amenities, a patient’s mother-inlaw, Raja Bai, said: “We brought our daughter-in-law here via taxi. But when we reached the hospital, she had to lie on the cold floor with just a thin mattress.”
As the number of women attending the camp was more than what the hospital adminis- tration had expected, the gallery was overcrowded with patients jostling for space.
Chief medical and health officer (CMHO) Dr Ashok Tiwari told HT that the construction of a new district hospital building was in the works near the present structure. “We have space constraint in the hospital but mattresses were provided to the patients. I will conduct an inquiry into the irregularities during the camp,” he said.
On November 16, similar scenes were witnessed at the Baldevgarh community health center in Chhatarpur where a family planning camp was organised.
There too, the patients were made to rest on the hospital floor and were carried by the staff in their arms after their operation.
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External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday asked the Indian high commission in Islamabad to grant a visa to a Pakistani woman for a liver transplant in India.
Her intervention came after Sadia, the ailing woman’s daughter, requested Swaraj for grant of a visa to her mother. “We will certainly help. I have asked Indian High Commission in Pakistan to issue visa for the liver transplant of your mother. @IndiainPakistan,” Swaraj said in a tweet.
To a request for medical visa by another Pakistani national Nasir Mahmood Ahmed, Swaraj said the Indian mission in Pakistan will examine his papers and send her a report. Ahmed, in a tweet to Swaraj, said he wanted to undergo liver and kidney transplants in India.
To a plea by Pakistani national Hira Azhar for a medical visa for her father, Swaraj asked her to contact the Indian Mission in Riyadh in this connection.
“Pls contact @IndianEmbRiyadh. We will give medical visa for the liver transplant of your father in India,” Swaraj said on Twitter.
Earlier, Hira, currently based in Saudi Arabia, had said, “@SushmaSwaraj My dad’s only hope is an urgent liver transplant. We are Pakistanis in KSA and waiting for the visa to India. Please help.”
SAGAR: We have space constraint in the hospital but mattresses were provided. I will conduct an inquiry. ASHOK TIWARI ,
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