The shortage of space in the emergency ward of the Doon hospital here is creating problems for both the patients and the staff. large numbers of patients visit the emergency and trauma ward of the hospital daily.
Emergency ward of the hospital has 14 beds and one Emergency Medical Officer (EMO), six nurses and four class IV employees are on round the clock duty here. To meet the requirement the hospital authorities have placed seven more beds in the gallery of the ward which result in space crunch.
Due to shrinking space, the ward appears too crowded and a situation of chaos prevails as the patients, their relatives and hospital staff appears to jostle past each other. The staff posted at the ward acknowledged the space constraints and said that more manpower is also needed in the ward.
One patient with injury on leg Doorbin Singh Yadav said that the doctor has not seen him though he was brought here about an hour ago. One of the patients Sufian who sustained head injury and was referred from Roorkee said that he is admitted here for last two days and added that the doctors
regularly check him. Not satisfied by the treatment in the ward the relatives of Tej Bahadur of Rajendra Nagar locality decided to shift him to a private clinic.
The Principal Medical Superintendent (PMS) of Doon hospital Dr RS Aswal admitted that the problem of space is there in the ward. He however added that problem would be sorted out when the construction work which is in progress in the neighboring room is completed, after which more space would be available in the ward.
The Uttar Pradesh Nirman Nigam is agency which is assigned this task and is expected to complete the work soon. Aswal said that after adding more space 24 beds would be available for the patients of emergency and trauma.
When inquired about the preparedness and the resources available in the emergency ward during the cases of mass causality, Dr Aswal said that the additional beds are made available during such cases and more doctors are pressed into service as per the requirement.