Jamshedpur : State owned MGM Medical College and Hospital is reeling under water crisis these days. The surgical and medicine ward are the worst hit.
Concerned over the prevailing situation a group of doctors have today written to the MGM Medical College principal AN Mishra to take immediate step in restoring the tap-water supply system at the surgical and medical blocks.
The aggrieved surgeons have demanded that the water supply should be restored in ENT, Surgery and Orthopaedics departments without further delay.
Surgery patients as well as their relatives are carrying the water in bucket and other containers to the first floor of the surgery block.As of now, MGM has 540 beds, 10 operating theatres, ICU and CT scan units, a blood bank and 13 departments, including emergency and gynaecology.
But building and facilities are rundown due to neglect, while numbers of doctors-cum-teachers, technicians and nurses continue to be far short of need. �The hospital building is in poor condition, which needs immediate repair.
Moreover the facilities at operation theatre and C T Scan need to be upgraded. The facilities for doctors and attendants also need to be addressed,� conceded an official.MGM also wants cardiac, kidney and skin super specialty units, as well as separate chambers for its associate professors.
�Water supply at an Operation Theatre is important for carrying out operation of the patients. We need adequate water as we have to wash our hands and surgery equipment time and again while carrying out the operation. But in absence of water or inadequate water we have to face immense problem,” said a doctor.
Ever since the problem cropped up toward the last week of June, they had written six times to the deputy superintendent of the medical college hospital Ashok Kumar Singh, highlighting the unhygienic condition that the surgeons are facing.
It may be mentioned that State Government governed Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital, is an Indian medical school established in 1964. It is situated in the outskirts of Jamshedpur near Dimna. The students are admitted through an All India pre medical test CBSE PMT held by CBSE and Jharkhand and Bihar states’ combined entrance tests. The college’s hospital is located in Sakchi.
Currently there is post graduate education in non clinical and paraclinical subjects.The MGMCH is a government hospital with the facility of 540 beds. Everyday around 1000 patients come here for treatment.
Several times parts of ceiling and windows have collapsed four times in the government hospital. Due to lack of repair work and attention of the authorities concerned, the condition of the hospital has deteriorated to a great extent.
