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SRNH runs short of vital drugs
BEFORE YOU take your ailing relative to the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital, take a look at these facts: The region's biggest referral hospital has fallen short of emergency and life saving drugs. Even the intravenous fluid like DNS is missing from the hospital's central medicine store.
BEFORE YOU take your ailing relative to the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital, take a look at these facts: The region's biggest referral hospital has fallen short of emergency and life saving drugs. Even the intravenous fluid like DNS is missing from the hospital's central medicine store.
The most common life saving injection like Adrenaline has also reportedly run out of stock at the SRN Hospital. The Adrenaline injection is usually administered in cases of extreme emergency.
"It is used to restore the heart following a heart attack, or to make the heart beat if it has stopped. It is also used in the emergency treatment of severe allergic reactions to insect bites or stings, medicines, foods or in case of breathing difficulty. Normally three to five injections are daily required at the surgery and medicine department for the serious patients. But it is not available at the hospital's medicine store. Similarly, Fortwin injection- a pain killer used to relieve moderate to severe pain and 28 per cent Xylocaine- containing local anaesthetic agent, have also run out of stock," said a hospital staff.
A senior staff nurse said most of these injectables were used in the gynaecology emergency. Sometime the patients were also asked to arrange DNS and simple antibiotics like Fortwin from outside the hospital, she added.
"The indent record till September 7, 2006 shows that most of the emergency injectables have run out of stock. There is also serious crisis of DNS IV fluid in the hospital. The crisis of these injectables has been existing for the past several weeks," she added.
Moti Lal Nehru Medical College Principal Dr PC Saxena said most of these medicines were available at the hospital. "However, sometimes the agency concerned makes delay in supplying the stock, due to which a crisis is created for a short time. A list of medicines available in the hospital has also been displayed at the Cardiology Department, so that the patients may not face difficulty in getting them from the hospital store," he pointed out.
Dr Saxena said there was also sufficient fund for the medicines and the problem would get over soon.
