On October 23, Mehrunisha of Romi village was working in paddy field when a snake bite her. The villagers immediately killed the snake and rushed her to Sadar Hospital. At the Hospital, the snake was identified as a Russell Viper, which is poisonous. There was no anti-venom in the hospital store and in the medical stores near the hospital so her relatives immediately left for Ranchi.
On October 25, a poor rickshaw-puller Kundan Ganjhu got injured in an accident. He was brought to Sadar Hospital, Hazaribagh, where fracture in his right leg was found. Since there was neither plaster of paris, cotton nor gauge was available in hospital so the CPM secretary Ganesh Kumar Citu arranged the money by taking donations and purchased the necessary medicines and other items from a medical store, then only his leg could be plastered.
More than 200 patients come to the outdoor of Sadar Hospital daily and majority of cases these days are of malaria. For malaria test there is everything in Sadar Hospital except a technician making dozens of patients suffer. These patients are then referred to the pathology centers of the town where they will have to pay a good amount for malaria test.
When The Pioneer tried to know about the causes of present condition then Civil Surgeon Vinay Kumar accepted it and said, “These days there is shortage of medicines and some other items. Since we have not received funds, situation has worsened but hoped that within a week everything will be restored.” The hospital sources informed that transfer order of a technician from Barhi to Hazaribagh has already been issued but he has not joined even after a month. Ganesh Kumar Citu has written a letter to the Deputy Commissioner in this regard.