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Jalandhar civil hosp fails to take care of donated items, DC concerned
The authorities of the Shaheed Babu Labh Singh Civil Hospital here have failed to preserve the items donated by social organisations or individuals to the hospital.
The authorities of the Shaheed Babu Labh Singh Civil Hospital here have failed to preserve the items donated by social organisations or individuals to the hospital.
This fact came to light recently when members of non-governmental organisations raised the issue before deputy commissioner Kamal Kishore Yadav at the first meeting of the Rogi Kalayan Samiti.
The samiti, headed by the deputy commissioner, works for the improvement of patient care and their welfare in health institutions.
Tarwinder Kumar, a member of the Satya Sai Sewa Samiti, told the DC that the organisation had been working in the civil hospital for the past 26 years and, during the last summer season, it had installed one desert cooler in each ward of the hospital to facilitate the patients.
Kumar said when a few days ago the organisation’s activists went to check the coolers in wards, te4hy were shocked to find that the coolers were found missing.
Further, the NGO recently donated RO systems to the hospital, but some of these were found missing, Kumar told the deputy commissioner.
He said four water coolers were also given by the NGO, but some of these are lying defunct in the main building.
Earlier, the HT had also reported about the non-functional water coolers due to which patients have to go to the third floor near the intensive care unit (ICU) to get water where one water cooler is in the working condition. But one tap of the cooler is also out of order.
Sources said that four air conditioners, installed in burns ward of the hospital, were also provided a few years ago by an NGO, but now these are also lying out of order.
In the absence of ACs, attendants of patients are forced bring pedestal fans from their houses, as some ceiling fans are also not functional.
Surinder Saini, another NGO’s representative, said the civil hospital did not even have the record of the items donated in the past. He demanded verification of the records from the administration.
The DC took a serious note of revelations and ordered that it was the responsibility of the hospital to take care of each item donated to it.
More than 1,200 people visit the civil hospital’s outpatient department (OPD) daily, besides 450 indoor patients.
