Hospital sick with lack of cleanliness

Struggles to deal with shortage of necessities, from doctors to basic amenities

The General Hospital is located in the heart of the town. Due to lack of doctors and medicines in primary health centres, thousands of patients come to the General Hospital everyday as outpatients.

Multiple issues
The Hospital caters to 500 to 600 outpatients, 50 to 60 inpatients, two to four cases of accidents and another two to four cases of snake bites and another one or two cases of suicide attempts by consuming poison.

Every Thursday pregnant women are given injections. The number of patients are increasing day by day. Due to lack of cleanliness in the village, mosquito breeding is rampant leading to increasing incidences of malaria and typhoid.

Too few
The General Hospital in the taluk has shortage of doctors and staff. There is lack of water both for drinking and for use in toilets. The patients have to get bottled water from outside.

Toilets which are meant for outpatients are locked. As a result the compound wall of the hospital has become a makeshift toilet. However women, especially pregnant women, face great difficulty, due to lack of toilets.

The toilets meant for inpatients do not have adequate water and phenoyl to keep them clean. The responsibility of cleanliness in the hospital toilets is vested with the contractors.