TMH Jamshedpur warns of downsizing COVID care facilities on face of condemnable protests

Jamshedpur, Sept 1: Peeved over recent attacks on its staff and condemnable behaviour being displayed by certain sections of citizens of Jamshedpur, Tata Main Hospital (TMH) has threatened to scale down COVID treatment capacity. In a press communiqu� issued by the hospital it said, �We are pained to inform the citizens of Jamshedpur that today owing to the behaviour and violent reaction of families of some patients , the doctors and staff of the hospital are feeling threatened and insecure. The situation is untenable and it has become very difficult to operate the hospital under such conditions where already approx. 50% of the medical staff are compromised due to COVID19 exposure. Should this continue to happen, it will not be possible to run operations with depleted medical staff and we will have no option but to scale down the COVID19 treatment capacity at Tata Main Hospital�.
 
�It may not be out of place to mention that Tata Steel stays committed to work towards improving the quality of life of the community in and around its areas of operations. However, it requires the co-operation and support of the community in this endeavour,� the communiqu� said.

It further said, “Tata Main Hospital , its doctors , nurses and all the staff have been providing selfless service since the outbreak of the COVID19 pandemic in March �20. Over the last few months TMH has made significant investment in equipment & infrastructure to provide best in class treatment to all patients who have tested COVID19 positive and are admitted for treatment. TMH today has converted into over 1000- bed COVID19 treatment facility, second to none in the country. It is unfortunate that we have had to experience deaths of patients, but none of this owes to lack of effort on part of the Doctors and support staff in providing the best possible treatment.”