The hospital is a 300-bed facility; however, the nursing staff available was not expanded since it used to be a 100-bed facility; now there were only 47 sanctioned strength to look after the hospital, and ten were empty as well
The three-storey building of Mother and Child Hospital has been infested with rats for quite some time now; from the labour room on the ground floor to the post-natal ward on the second floor, all have turned into a “playground” for rats, said a health worker
Senior medical officer Dr Mandeep Kaur Sidhu on February 12 had issued an order asking occupants in the old laundry department building to vacate the building within a week
Taking action to rectify this anomaly, civil surgeon Dr. Jasbir Singh Aulakh had instructed the SMO to ensure the deployment of a pharmacy officer in the mortuary via an official circular on February 20