New Delhi: Negligence of the maintanence of hospitals in Delhi has led to their grim state. Apart from the dirt and filth, the hospitals lack basic infrastructure and medicines. The unhygienic conditions at two prominent hospitals in the Capital, Hindu Rao Hospital and LNJP Hospital says it all.
The scenario at the Hindu Rao hospital in North Delhi is pitiable with chaos at the gynecology ward, hundreds crowding the floor, young women in labour pain and their families, all scrambling for space as they wait for their turn.
"I got sick of sitting for so long on a chair. So i am lying down on the floor" said a pregnant woman.
Inside the ward, most of the 40 odd beds are shared by two mothers and their new born babies, sometimes family members also nudge in.There are open dustbins with possibly infectious medical waste, plastic bottles, broken windows, all inside the labour ward.
In a place that's meant to be sanitized and where entry is strictly restricted, a dog saunters in the gynecology OPD, just like the multitude of patients.
In addition, a big matter of concern, things are no better at the Hospital's emergency ward. A man prepares his wife before the doctor administers her an injection.
Sources in the hospital say the medical staff is grappling with shortage of basic resources like beds, surgical gloves and saline drips, something denied by the medical superintendent.
"Everything...medicines, cotton, bottles..there's scarcity of everything" said a doctor."We ask the patients to get it from outside".
"Sometimes we don't have report papers. So we have to tear the page and write the report there. There are no gloves in the surgery department. This is the medical emergency" said the doctor.
At the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, Satrup Prasad goes back disappointed from the hospital pharmacy. He had come all the way from Lucknow to buy medicines for his son.
Due to non-availabilty of two common drugs at hospital's pharmacy, Satrup has to now go in search of them outside the hospital.
The two hospitals tell the story of most government hospitals in the national capital. A recent study has revealed that a whopping 68 % of people in urban India, including the poor, prefer going to a private hospital. Yet, there is a large section(82% in urban India), those without any healthcare support, that has no option but to depend on government hospitals.
"I accept there is a massive shortage of beds and equipment in govt hospitals" said Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain.
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