ARA SADAR HOSPITAL DO NOT FOLLOW GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTION, PATIENTS ARE HARRIED LOT

Ara, 18 July 2023, (RNI): Bihar Government is making all efforts to streamline working at government hospitals for the benefits of patients particularly the poor patients but the result is a big zero due to slackness of officials of the health department. The hapless patients can do nothing but except cursing their fate on one hand while on the other, the Hospital management gives message through its working style that reform is not its culture.  

Doctors’ care, better nursing facilities and availability of medicines and the health of patients besides the facilities required for the benefit of the health of the patients are also not available to the patients in the Ara Sadar Hospital and thus the ground realities belied tall claims of the government and the Ara Sadar Hospital management is a living example of insensitivity.

Good nursing, regular doctors’ care for improvement of the health of patients besides sanitation is a very important aspect. In view of this, the government has instructed to provide clean bed sheets on beds of all the patients every day. To avoid confusion, the colour of bed sheets has also been fixed according to the day so that the patients can get clean bed sheet. The patients are to be provided blue bed sheet on Monday, Indigo on Tuesday, Green on Wednesday, Yellow on Thursday, Orange on Friday Red on Saturday and Violet on Violet on Sunday but the officials of the Ara Sadar Hospital are at their whims to make the efforts of the government unsuccessful. But not to speak of bed sheets of different colour fixed for every day in the Ara Sadar Hospital, the patients are not provided with bed sheets and they come to the hospital with own bed sheets. This proves hollowness of the official claims.

There is an arrangement to examine the patients after registration in the Ara Sadar Hospial but due to closure of the registration counter before time, the patients have a lot of difficulties. They have to wait for registration till counter opens in the second shift and they have to waste their valuable times. At the Ara Sadar Hospital, most of the patients come from remote areas and they to return home before sunset as they have no option to return after sunset and if they wait and waste their time unnecessarily, touch their pockets too. Yet the hospital management turns a blind eye to their problems. In addition to this, the time table is also not written on the registration counter which is necessary as per the rules. The patients are being cheated continuously and mismanagement harassed them.

Sanitation and pure environment is an important aspect for the good health of the patients but filth and garbage reign supreme in the hospital. The toilets are full of filth and garbage and medical waste keeps spreading on the campus of the Ara Sadar Hospital. The Hospital management has assigned the task of sanitation to an NGO but the secretary of the NGO is reportedly engaged in appeasing the authorities for her personal gain and never bothers for sanitation. Whenever a senior official of the Health Department visits the Ara Sadar Hospital, the NGO is seen active in the Ara Sadar Hospital and the campus is made neat and clean.

The Civil Surgeon, Ara Sadar Hospital said that this is a serious matter and action would be taken after thorough investigation. The patients must get the facilities prescribed by the government.