After an outbreak in Delhi the number of dengue patients is getting high at RIMS and so far as many as 108 patients have been admitted in the hospital. The hospital has been trying best possible treatment to the patients diagnosed with the deadly disease.
While citing the details about the arrangement made by hospital administration to combat dengue, Director of RIMS Dr B l Sherwal said, “We have made all proper arrangements for patients. Doctors are regularly monitoring the patients infected with the disease and we have all basic medicines available with us. Moreover, there is a lack of awareness among the public about this specific disease. We have also discussed this issue with the government officials and are planning to launch an awareness campaign in the city.”
Mentioning about the problem of water-logging just behind the dengue ward Sherwal, further said, “At the regular interval of three days, cleaning is done to combat the problem. The hospital premises is conducted on regular basic.”
On managing the crowd inside the isolation ward, a senior attendant of dengue ward Pradeep Kumar said, “The hospital administration is managing the patients. Doctors are regularly visiting the patients infected with dengue. So far each and every patient infected with dengue has been properly treated since the day a patient is admitted and than only finally released from the ward.”
However, with only 36 odd beds in its isolation ward reserved for the vector-borne disease, the hospital authority is managing the treatment of existing patients and accommodating new ones.
Though often patients complains about the shortage of nursing staff in the isolation ward filled with dengue patients but nursing staffs present at the isolation ward deny it.
“We are doing our duty in shifts, especially in the isolation ward since the day cases of dengue patients increased. All the basic facilities like blankets, mosquito nets are being provided to the patients,” asserted the senior nursing staff M Kumari.
Few patients coming from adjoining areas of the city seemed content with the arrangements. “I was on admitted in dengue ward on September 22 and so far I have received support from everyone associated with the hospital,” said Rakesh Kiro, a patient from Bero, Jharkhand.