The Jharkhand High Court, on the basis of a report published in a local newspaper on problems being faced by patients due to incessant rains in the State, took suo motto cognisance asking the authorities to submit a detailed report on the current state prevailing in the three major medical colleges and hospitals of the State.
The Court also asked them to incorporate problems of water logging, seepage and other allied difficulties caused by continuous rains and also the curative steps taken to tackle these problems for bringing normalcy in these three hospitals with hygiene and healthy atmosphere.
According to the news report, patients at the Patliputra Medical College and Hospital face post-operation infections, with relentless rain resulting in many wards of the hospital getting water-logged. Rainwater has also seeped into the gynecology, ENT, pediatrics, surgery and orthopedics wards from the ceiling.
It was further reported that over two dozen patients were shifted out of the surgery ward while 30 more are still waiting to be shifted to a safe place. In the Gynecology ward, two patients have been accommodated on a single bed along with their infants, however, the continuous seepage of water has wet the bed sheets on most of the beds and the patients are now forced to lie straight on the mattress.
Notices have been issued to Chief Secretary, Jharkhand, Principal Secretary, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, Principal Secretary, Department of Building Construction, State of Jharkhand, Deputy Commissioners of Ranchi, Dhanbad and East Singhbhum, Director, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, Superintendent of Patliputra Medical College and Hospital and Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, East Singhbhum. The case will be heard next on August 31.