By Express News Service
CUTTACK: Even because the SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH) and Acharya Harihar Post Graduate Institute of Cancer(AHPGIC) day by day appeal to 1000’s of sufferers and their attendees get 1000’s of sufferers and attendants each day, the 2 premier healthcare establishments are bereft of vital facilities forcing them to take shelter beneath the open sky.
At AHPGIC, sufferers and attendants need to take shelter beneath the bushes for a number of days. The 281-bed most cancers hospital get 700 to 1,000 sufferers each day from throughout the State and out of doors. While there’s a dharmashala on the campus, it could solely home a most of 120 sufferers and their attendants. The relaxation keep beneath the open sky.
On a mean, they keep on the campus for 5 to seven days to avail their analysis studies. “Since the hospital and dharmashala have no space, we have put up under a tree since the last five days. The diagnosis report is yet to come,” mentioned a resident from Koraput who has come to the hospital alongside along with his ailing relative. To tide over the mosquito menace, he needed to buy two mosquito nets and cling it from the tree.
AHPGIC Administrative Officer Rudra Narayan Dash mentioned the sufferers’ influx is at all times excessive which has resulted on this scenario. “We cannot admit a patient till his/her biopsy report confirms carcinoma status. Since it takes around a week’s time, patients from distant districts prefer to stay back on the campus instead of going back”, Dash mentioned.
Similarly, poor facilities and lack of shelters at 2,282-bed SCBMCH is a explanation for concern. Over 5,000 sufferers come to the MCH day by day. Even as a majority of them arrive from far off locations and have to attend for a number of hours for registration and session, they face lodging points within the absence of shelters.
Many of the sufferers and their attendants at OPDs, tremendous speciality block, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Surgery, Orthopedic, Medicine and Paediatrics departments have repeatedly complained to the authorities involved on the difficulty however to no respite. The MCH authorities ought to at the very least present us ready and relaxation rooms, they opined.The MCH authorities, nonetheless, clarified that the required services have been included within the hospital redevelopment plan.
