The Forum for Ganjam, which has been holding a postcard campaign for the last six days to highlight the erratic functioning of the MKCG Medical College Hospital here, on Monday held a campaign before the Khallikote College.
Many local residents and denizens of the city enthusiastically participated in the demanding improvement in the functioning of the hospital.
They also put their signatures in post cards addressed to the Chief Minister seeking his intervention.
In the last six days, during the campaign carried out it the city and the rural areas of the district more than 5,000 post cards have been sent to the Chief Minister. The forum has decided to hold a motor bike rally on August 24. The Forum last for the last few days there are glaring irregularities in functioning of the MKCG Hospital.
While there are vacancies of 100 doctor posts, most of the doctors are spending most of their time in private clinics. Many posts of nurses are also vacant.
The hospital also earned a bad name after a pregnant woman was refused admission and had delivered a baby near the hospital’s entrance. Besides, many life saving equipments are either defunct or not available in the hospital, the forum alleged.
Among others, Forum’s secretary Sudheer Rout, Swarajya Subudhi, J Suresh, Manas Patro, Shyam Sundar Khadanga and Bhim Raju Patro were present.