In the absence of necessary budget the financial health of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Government hospital here is in very bad shape. The hospital, which is popularly known as Coronation hospital is yet to receive the budget from last six months and owes more than `1.2 crore to different vendors. The condition has reached to such a point that some vendors have threatened to stop the supplies if their over dues are not paid immediately.
Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) of Coronation hospital Dr Bharti Rana said that the hospital has received the budget for the first quarter only this year. She disclosed that the hospital has received `28 lakh till date and payment under various heads is due on it.
The hospital owes `80 lakh for medicines, `20 lakh for surgical equipment and ` 14 lakh against the meals. The hospital owes `3.75 lakh for electricity and `14 lakh to the vendor of sanitation works.
Sources informed that many vendors have threatened to stop supplies if their payments are not made. The vendor supplying cooked meals to the patients has set a deadline of December 31 for payments after which he has clearly stated that he would not be in a position to supply the food.
The sanitation work contractor who employs 14 sanitation workers has also threatened to halt the sanitation work of the hospital in absence of funds. One of the staff members said that the vendors of medicines and surgical equipments have stopped picking phone calls of the doctors and other staff members as they do not want to supply the items without payments.
The hospital has a sprawling campus and has a sanctioned in house patient capacity of 58 beds; the Fortis hospital is also located in its campus. The Coronation hospital which has 28 sanctioned posts of doctor caters about 300-350 patients per day.