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| Garbage, space crunch at Anantnag Maternity Hospital go unnoticed | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Apr 3: Unattended garbage in the premises of Maternity and Child Care Hospital, Anantnag, and space crunch are not only giving tough time to the visitors but are putting the lives of patients and attendants at risk.
In absence of regular cleaning, garbage has piled up in premises of South Kashmir's lone maternity hospital, according to some attendants.
They said stray dogs rummage through garbage piles and chase visitors. "The canines are present in every corner of the hospital due to garbage," they said.
Attendants said that unattended garbage is emanating pungent smell, posing a threat of infection to patients, attendants and the newborn babies.
They said that on visiting the hospital premises anyone could find biomedical waste scattered around.
"You can't even go nearer to bathrooms constructed some 10 years ago by the authorities as they have gone dysfunctional and are emanating pungent smell but still people use them as there in no other option available to them," they added. Hospital is also craving for space, an attendant identifying himself as Mushtaq Ahmad told ET.
He said that authorities have adjusted 20 beds in post operative ward that had hardly any space for 10 beds. "Even a nurse or a doctor who visits the patients for injecting some injections can't move around the bed," he claimed.
Due to the space crunch in the hospital the labour and surgical wards having the capacity of seven or eight beds are huddled with 18 to 20 beds, an employee without revealing his identity said, adding rules of marinating space from bed to bed are being thrown to winds.
Officials in health department revealed that Director Health Service Kashmir was not showing any serious concern towards the issues as according to them he had not processed the proposal of shifting hospital from congested Sherbagh locality allegedly on a politician's request.
"The director has to act wisely and take the decision of shifting hospital in the larger interest of public," a health department official said.
Pertinently, on March 12 this year, Director Health Services Kashmir, Dr Sameer Matoo had admitted that the maternity hospital was in an inappropriate building and they were seriously working on the proposal to shift it to other place. |
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