The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has taken note of the collapse of the medical facilities and problems faced by the general public at associated hospital of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC). The former state convener of Aam Aadami Party (AAP), Anoop Nautiyal had submitted the complaint to the PMO. The PMO on August 26 has taken note of the complaint and forwarded it to the Government of Uttarakhand on August 26. 2016. It has also appointed Anand Kumar as review officer of the complaint.
“We hope that the situation in Doon Medical College (former Doon Hospital) improves with the intervention of the PMO. We also make a fervent appeal to the Uttarakhand government and the entire health department to take urgent steps to address the brewing man-made medical disaster in Dehradun and across the entire state of Uttarakhand,’’ said Nautiyal.
Meanwhile commotion in the biggest hospital of the state continued on Wednesday. The Pathology lab of the hospital was the usual trouble spot of the day when the lab was closed at 12.30 PM. The angry patients protested when the gates of the lab were closed for sample collection. The Principal of the GDMC, Dr Pradeep Bharati Gupta had sent four technicians from the college to the lab to assist the overworked staff. However the order of the hospital administration to take samples till 1.30 PM infuriated the staff of the lab. The lab staff gheraoed the Head of the Department (HOD) of the pathology department Dr N K Mishra and had a heated verbal duel with him. The staff members accused the HOD of exploitation. One of technicians, Rakesh Rawat clearly told Mishra that the technicians would work till late hours only when the doctors are also in the hospital with them. He said that the all the technicians sent by the medical college were deployed to collect sample which ensured more work for staff testing them. Rawat claimed that the quality of the work would get affected by collection of more samples then the capacity of the lab.
The agitated staff members of the pathology lab demanded adequate security arrangements to prevent the daily onslaught of hostile patients and their relatives. They also said that the infrastructure and man power in the lab should be improved in wake of huge patient load.