John Wilbert & Rabindranath Biswas
Port Blair, Dec 13: The G B Pant Hospital of Port Blair has been running without a cardiologist formore than two weeks as the lone Specialist Cardiologist Dr. Srikanth has reportedly resigned from Directorate of Health Services.
According to information, the Specialist Cardiologist had resigned on 30th Nov 2022, which in turn rendered closure of the operation theatre of the heart patients in the hospital.
The GB Pant Hospital is now facing a serious challenge to provide service to the patients with cardiac complaints. On one hand Islanders are demanding an adequate supply of highly trained cardiologists to help deliver state-of-the-art care to a growing number of cardiac patients in Andaman and on the other hand the lone Cardiologist of DHS has resigned.
In fact, the lone referral hospital in A & N Islands had been suffering owing to the absence of a cardiologist for a long time. After a gap of one and half years, Dr. Srikanth joined GB Pant Hospital last year in the month of Nov 2021. Soon after joining, Dr. Srikanth dedicated himself to serve the people, and within a short span of his tenure, he attended scores of heart patients and rendered best treatment.
As per information, Dr. Srikanth performed nearly 136 operation cases of the heart patients between 2021 Nov to Nov 2022 with superb success and in which many operations were very complicated.
Now, the resignation of Dr. Srikanth came as a terrible blow to the Health Services, people opined.
While on the other hand, patients requested the Andaman and Nicobar Administration/Health Department to recruit permanent Heart Specialists, and until it is done, Heart Specialists should be arranged at least on a weekly basis from any Private Hospitals in mainland on MoU basis so that patients with cardiac issues can continue to get the treatment on regular basis and complicated operations can be done at Port Blair, they suggested.
