Acute mattress scarcity at SCB Medical College, pressured to offer remedy on ward’s flooring

By Express News Service

CUTTACK: Struggling to deal with an acute scarcity of beds, and authorities apathy for rising the quantity regardless of excessive quantity of admissions, as many as eight main departments of SCB Medical College and Hospital are pressured to offer remedy to the sufferers on the ground of the wards’ corridors.

Patients, a lot of them vital, mendacity in depressing circumstances on the corridors and verandahs of the wards presents a dismal image of healthcare companies being supplied on the premier hospital of the State. The departments similar to medication, paediatrics, neurology, nephrology, gastroenterology, cardiology, obstetrics and gynaecology and orthopedic are the worst hit.

As per studies, the variety of sanctioned beds for 26 scientific departments of SCB MCH is 2,052, of which 2,401 beds are presently obtainable with various preparations. In the drugs division, as many as 475 beds are functioning in opposition to 422 sanctioned beds. The mattress occupancy on the division is at 148 per cent. Similarly, 78 beds are operational in opposition to 58 sanctioned beds within the paediatrics division, with the mattress occupancy at 125 per cent. 

Barring gastrointestinal surgical procedure division whose mattress occupancy is 53 per cent, there are not any departments the place occupancy is lower than 80 per cent. Mostly vital sufferers admitted to SCB MCH are failing to get a mattress and are pressured to obtain remedy on the ground of a ward, additionally resulting in discontentment amongst their attendants. 

However, SCB MCH Administrative Officer Dr. Abinash Rout stated the scenario is due to the rising influx of sufferers to the departments. “The daily footfall of the patients at SCB MCH has increased considerably and at present above 7,000. But there will be no such problem after the redevelopment work of the hospital is completed,” Rout stated.