Manoj & E Arun
Port Blair, Apr 11: G.B Pant Hospital is the lone referral hospital in Andaman and Nicobar Islands but there are many things which barring the hospital from becoming the best hospital of these Islands. Shortage of Ward-boys in the hospital is perhaps one such reason, which is bringing down the image of the hospital.
This shortage has hit the orthopaedic ward of G B Pant very hard as patient with single or multiple fractures need help of others for their movement. As there is severe shortage of Ward-boys, patients with fractures have to depend on others for their movement.
For Physiotherapy, X-Ray and other tests ortho patients have to go to different sections of the G B Pant Hospital. The Physiotherapy section is on the second floor of OPD block and for that one has to travel from the ortho section (Old Building) to the OPD section.
As there is always shortage of ward boys the attendants have to carry the patient in wheel chair to different buildings. In case the attendant is women things become further worse. To get a help of ward boy one has to wait for several hours because just one ward boy posted in Ortho section can’t play superman and help everybody at the same time.
The shortage of ward boys are seen in almost all sections of the hospital and the ultimate sufferers are the patients, attendants and the other staffs who have to do extra work in order to provide Islanders with basic health care facilities.
The Hospital Management is not only responsible for the sufferings of the people because of shortage of the ward boys, actually, it is the administration which is responsible, believe many people, as creating more post of ward boys is the responsibility of Administration.
When Andaman Sheekha contacted Mrs. Kusum Kunwar (SAG), MBBS DGO, MS, she said that there is a shortage of staffs with the department and it is already conveyed to the Administration and soon they will overcome the shortage. She further added that once the medical college opens up this shortage of medical staffs will permanently extinguished.
“Medical College is a distant dream, which may take another decade therefore the Administration must immediately look into the matter and appoint more ward boys for the hospital so that patients and attendants get some relief,” said a patient of orthopaedic section of G B Pant Hospital.
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