The district health administration has undertaken electrical wiring of the newly constructed medicine ward after reports surfaced that the patients and their attendants visiting the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) are encountering untold woes due to load shedding. For two days, especially the Saturday and Sunday nights, the entire town, including the DHH, witnessed power snapping after hail and thunderstorms. The inconveniences compounded after the sunset as for every small things there is a requirement of light. On Saturday and Sunday nights, while power was snapped due to major breakdown at multiple stations, in the medicine ward, the patients as well as the nursing staffs suffered a lot. The nurses were seen giving medicines and injections to the patients using torch and mobile phone lights.
Most of the nurses said that they were facing a tough task to accomplish their duties in the want of light. They said that although their medicine ward too has a separate generator to provide uninterrupted power supply yet in the want of its connection to the ward the same was not available.
CDMO Bibekananda Das, besides stating that all the wards and vital establishments are equipped with standby generators, said the desired services couldn’t be provided as the hospital is in the transition phase, from a headquarters hospital to a medical college hospital.
It may be noted that the DHH facilities would be used for practical of the students of the medical college while classes would be held in the newly constructed building at Remuna. The district authorities said that the medical college was ready and waiting for the visit of MCI team before the final clearance by the Central team for beginning classes from 2018-19 academic session. “To accommodate the medical college requirement while existing establishments are altered, expanded and renovated, the medicine ward too is undergoing changes. Although the alteration work is completed, yet the electrical wiring is yet to be done,” said Das.
“However, the inconveniences to the patients in the last two nights have come to our knowledge. And soon the wiring works would be completed on war footing,” the CDMO said.