The women’s ward of Sadar Hospital Hazaribagh is facing shortage of beds. Though capacity is sufficient, most beds are damaged. Only three are usable at present.
At a time when viral diseases are on a high and 20 to 30 patients come in daily, the scarcity is hurting most. In OPD, the doctors suggest the patients to get admitted in the hospital but the nurses return them as they are unable to serve the patients due to unavailability of the beds, and suggest them to share bed with another patient.
The maximum female patients who are admitted in the Sadar Hospital are suffereing from viral and other such diseases which can affect the other patients sharing the bed. The female ward of the hospital was to be shifted to the new building of the Sadar Hospital but due to some reason it has not been shifted yet.
A female patient, Bimla Devi admitted here said that it becomes difficult to adjust when the number of patients goes beyond two. She further said that due to this system we are unable to sleepwell. Another patient Etwariya Devi also complained of the same.
The civil surgeon of Hazaribagh Dr. Vinay Kumar said that in the number of patients has increased in the rainy session, and the shortage of beds, i screating a lot of problems. Kumar said that to put an end to all these problems, the female ward will be shifted to the new building soon.