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Snail-paced repairs irk MU docs
THE SNAIL-PACED repair works in the MU medicine department seem to have put the doctors in a spot. ?No more patients, please. We are short of beds. Of course, we will have to manage the emergency cases somehow,? they say throwing their hands up.
THE SNAIL-PACED repair works in the MU medicine department seem to have put the doctors in a spot. “No more patients, please. We are short of beds. Of course, we will have to manage the emergency cases somehow,” they say throwing their hands up.
On Wednesday morning 14 male and 4 female beds were vacant. But, by afternoon they were all occupied compelling the authorities to restrict admissions. A letter was shot to the Trauma Centre emergency to restrict admission. Only one Manoj was able to get admitted. He condition was serious or one can say he was lucky to get admission. Those coming for admission from Thursday would face the same problem. In fact, repair and construction work has been going on the campus since last three months from one department to other. However, the slow speed of repair work has made the impact upon patients care facilities and academic work at almost all the departments.
The operating theatre of the Orthopaedic Surgery department is non-functional since June 8 this year, as the construction agency has pulled down the roof of ENT department for repair work. The OT of the Orthopedic Department falls just below the ENT department, which is on first floor of the building.
Currently the main problem is in the Department of Medicine. Here, two wards have been simultaneously put under repair that reduced the bed strength to half the capacity. Even the female patients have to share the same ward with male patients. It may be mentioned that construction work has made its impact on almost every department starting from ENT, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Plastic Surgery, General Surgery to Medicine. As the patients of dengue and malaria have started pouring in, the Department of Medicine is facing major problem in accommodating them.
Not just clinical departments but slow working has also made an impact in the non-clinical Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry. Here teachers had to sit in other rooms or in verandahs while the construction is on. The work should have been completed by the summer holidays but it still continues which forced the V-C Prof Hari Gautam chancellor to intervene.
When repair work in department of ENT got much delayed, the V-C called up the agency representatives and gave them a deadline. But, he is on a leave for four days.
