Bad sanitary practices at Gandhi Hospital are leaving patients high and dry, exposing them to a number of infectious diseases. Even syringes used for HIV positive patients are discarded carelessly.
A nine-year-old girl who is a HIV victim was admitted to the hospital a few days back. The nurses in the hospital are so careless that after giving injections to the girl, the used syringe was thrown carelessly and other little kids and their attendants who were placed in the same ward were found playing around with those syringes.
Not just the Children's medical ward, Gandhi Hospital has always been in the list of those hospitals which have poor sanitation and poor medical facilities even after spending over Rs 1 Lakh for maintaining sanitation in the hospital.
"Nurses are not available in the first floor though there is special counter made for them to sit and attend patients when needed. We have to take our sick children all the way to the ground floor and then bring them back carrying on our shoulders," explained Lakshmi, a patient's attendant.
While on the other hand, poor patients who visit the hospital are tortured for bribes by the security personnel standing at the entrance of the ward.
If bribe is not given, the patients are asked to take a gate pass and then enter the ward. There are no metal detectors for security and though there are security personnel placed at the entrance, they are busy demanding bribes and none check the baggage that the patients carry inside.
While this is the situation, the superintendent of the hospital Dr B Balraju says, "nothing of this sort has come to my notice."
A nine-year-old girl who is a HIV victim was admitted to the hospital a few days back. The nurses in the hospital are so careless that after giving injections to the girl, the used syringe was thrown carelessly and other little kids and their attendants who were placed in the same ward were found playing around with those syringes.
Not just the Children's medical ward, Gandhi Hospital has always been in the list of those hospitals which have poor sanitation and poor medical facilities even after spending over Rs 1 Lakh for maintaining sanitation in the hospital.
"Nurses are not available in the first floor though there is special counter made for them to sit and attend patients when needed. We have to take our sick children all the way to the ground floor and then bring them back carrying on our shoulders," explained Lakshmi, a patient's attendant.
While on the other hand, poor patients who visit the hospital are tortured for bribes by the security personnel standing at the entrance of the ward.
If bribe is not given, the patients are asked to take a gate pass and then enter the ward. There are no metal detectors for security and though there are security personnel placed at the entrance, they are busy demanding bribes and none check the baggage that the patients carry inside.
While this is the situation, the superintendent of the hospital Dr B Balraju says, "nothing of this sort has come to my notice."
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