Trinath & Sarthak Kanjilal
Port Blair, May 28: Going for treatment has now become an arduous task for the residents of Billyground area. As per reports, to maintain proper social distancing the authorities of Primary Health Center Billyground are not allowing the patients inside the hospital and are asking the patients to wait outside the hospital in the open before their turn comes.
Even the Doctors are learned to be sitting in the corridor to entertain the visiting patients. “I am already suffering from fever and body pain, making us stand outside under scorching hot sun is like a punishment,” said a patient, who does not want his name to be quoted.
Andaman Sheekha got photographs of long queue of patients standing in open outside the hospital.
When Andaman Sheekha contacted sources in the PHC Billyground, on the condition of anonymity they said that in the old PHC building they do not have sufficient space and it won’t be possible for them or for the patients to maintain required social distancing inside the hospital.
“Once the already constructed new OPD is handed over to the PHC, there won’t be such problems as the new building has sufficient space for maintaining distancing,” the source added.
The problem in the PHC is not just with the visiting patients, several admitted patients in the hospital told Andaman Sheekha that due to frequent power outages they are facing tremendous problems and growing menace of mosquitoes is another problem.
When Andaman Sheekha went into the depth of the issue it was learned that the Generator set of the hospital is under repair and hence it is giving horrible times to both the staffs and the patients in the hospital.
Hopefully, the higher authorities of the DHS will interfere into this matter and sort out the problems of the patients at the earliest.
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