Peeved over recent attacks on its staff, Tata Main Hospital (TMH) has threatened to scale down COVID treatment capacity.
In a press communiqué issued by the hospital it said: “We are pained to inform the citizens of Jamshedpur that today owing to the behaviour and violent reaction of families of some patients , the doctors and staff of the hospital are feeling threatened and insecure.
The situation is untenable and it has become very difficult to operate the hospital under such conditions where already approx. 50% of the medical staff are compromised due to COVID19 exposure. Should this continue to happen, it will not be possible to run operations with depleted medical staff and we will have no option but to scale down the COVID19 treatment capacity at Tata Main Hospital”.
“It may not be out of place to mention that Tata Steel stays committed to work towards improving the quality of life of the community in and around its areas of operations.
However, it requires the co-operation and support of the community in this endeavour,” the communiqué said.