Patients visiting State-run MGM Medical College and Hospital are left in lurch as the ECG machines have started getting out of order one after another since the last six months. The latest ECG machine to go out of order was in the intensive care unit of the hospital.According to information over 25 patients are being referred to the private clinics daily for getting their ECG done as the machines are out of order at the hospital.
An official of the hospital informed that there are 10 ECG machines in the OPD. Apart from these ECG machines, there is a disaster trolley, fitted with the ECG machine. The disaster trolley is also lying idle as there is no operator.The official went on to inform that the ECG machine at the hospital’s ICU was functioning till July 12 evening, but after that the patients admitted at the ICU are being referred to private clinic for getting the ECG report. He claimed they have written several time to the state health department for repairing or replacing the damaged machine, but no step has been taken so far.
The MGM Medical College and Hospital has 520 beds and has also an OPD as well as emergency ward. On an average 250 patients turn up every day at the hospital’s OPD and several of them do come here for consulting for the heart related disease. At the OPD, the ECG machine has gone out of order since the past two months.
Deputy superintendent, Ashok Kumar Singh confirmed that all the ECG machines at the medical college hospital are not working. “ Yes the machines are not working and patients are facing problems,” he conceded.On Thursday a patient who was brought to the medical college hospital’s OPD, Md Shakir, had pain in his heart after a fall at his house, was referred to a private clinic.
The hospital is reeling under lack of facilities. As of now, MGM has 520 beds, 10 operating theatres, ICU and CT scan units, a blood bank and 13 departments, including emergency and gynaecology. But building and facilities are rundown due to neglect, while numbers of doctors-cum-teachers, technicians and nurses continue to be far short of need.“The hospital building is in poor condition, which needs immediate repair. Moreover the facilities at operation theatre and C T Scan need to be upgraded. The facilities for doctors and attendants also need to be addressed,” conceded an official.
It may be mentioned that State Government governed Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital, is an Indian medical school established in 1964. It is situated in the outskirts of Jamshedpur near Dimna.The students are admitted through an All India pre medical test CBSE PMT held by CBSE and Jharkhand and Bihar states’ combined entrance tests. The college’s hospital is located in Sakchi. Currently there is post graduate education in non clinical and paraclinical subjects.