<p>Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital has decided to put a cap on the number of patients doctors will see each day at four of its super-specialty OPDs from May 1.<br /><br /></p>.<p>This move comes after doctors in the neurology department complained of chaos in the outdoor patient departments on Friday, besides not being able to devote enough time to patients.<br /><br />Authorities are planning to bring down the number of patients to 150 in each of the four super-specialty OPDs. <br /><br />Patients will be seen on a first-come-first-serve basis.<br /><br />“We are planning to put a cap on four departments — neurology, neurosurgery, endocrinology and urology. These are the departments which see maximum rush”, said Dr H K Kar, medical superintendent of the hospital. <br /> <br />“We will issue circulars tomorrow and also spread it by word-of-mouth so that patients are alerted in advance,”he said.<br /><br /> “This will help improve the quality of treatment that patients are provided,” he added.<br /><br />A doctor from the neurology department said there were 600 patients in the OPDs on Friday.<br /><br />“How can a super-specialty OPD function like this? Is it possible to for six doctors to do justice to 600 patients in a day? We cannot even afford to address the query of the patients most of the times,” said a doctor, requesting anonymity.<br /><br />Currently, services of each super-specialty OPD are available for patients twice a week. <br /><br />“From May 1, we will accommodate 100 old neurological cases and 50 new cases,” the doctor added.<br /><br />While hospital authorities see it as a measure to deliver better services, patients in the out-patients department complained that this would mean they have to wait for weeks before their problems are diagnosed.<br /><br />“It is unbelievable that they are planning to accommodate less patients. The is deliberately bringing down the certainty of patients of receiving treatment,” said Ramesh, a patient at the OPD.<br /><br />“Why don’t the authorities appoint more doctors and employ better measures to manage the crowd? There is chaos because this space is not enough to accommodate a super-specialty OPD,” said a man in his mid-30s who refused to be named.<br />“At least, they should make available the option of prior appointments. Instead of resolving the internal problems of the hospital, they are aggravating patients’s problems now,” the patient added. </p>
<p>Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital has decided to put a cap on the number of patients doctors will see each day at four of its super-specialty OPDs from May 1.<br /><br /></p>.<p>This move comes after doctors in the neurology department complained of chaos in the outdoor patient departments on Friday, besides not being able to devote enough time to patients.<br /><br />Authorities are planning to bring down the number of patients to 150 in each of the four super-specialty OPDs. <br /><br />Patients will be seen on a first-come-first-serve basis.<br /><br />“We are planning to put a cap on four departments — neurology, neurosurgery, endocrinology and urology. These are the departments which see maximum rush”, said Dr H K Kar, medical superintendent of the hospital. <br /> <br />“We will issue circulars tomorrow and also spread it by word-of-mouth so that patients are alerted in advance,”he said.<br /><br /> “This will help improve the quality of treatment that patients are provided,” he added.<br /><br />A doctor from the neurology department said there were 600 patients in the OPDs on Friday.<br /><br />“How can a super-specialty OPD function like this? Is it possible to for six doctors to do justice to 600 patients in a day? We cannot even afford to address the query of the patients most of the times,” said a doctor, requesting anonymity.<br /><br />Currently, services of each super-specialty OPD are available for patients twice a week. <br /><br />“From May 1, we will accommodate 100 old neurological cases and 50 new cases,” the doctor added.<br /><br />While hospital authorities see it as a measure to deliver better services, patients in the out-patients department complained that this would mean they have to wait for weeks before their problems are diagnosed.<br /><br />“It is unbelievable that they are planning to accommodate less patients. The is deliberately bringing down the certainty of patients of receiving treatment,” said Ramesh, a patient at the OPD.<br /><br />“Why don’t the authorities appoint more doctors and employ better measures to manage the crowd? There is chaos because this space is not enough to accommodate a super-specialty OPD,” said a man in his mid-30s who refused to be named.<br />“At least, they should make available the option of prior appointments. Instead of resolving the internal problems of the hospital, they are aggravating patients’s problems now,” the patient added. </p>
