SHILLONG, April 6: The Shillong Civil Hospital has ignored the directive of the Governor to relocate all the patients sleeping in the corridor of the hospital to the available beds in different wards. Last week, Governor Ranjit Shekhar Mooshary asked the Shillong Civil Hospital authorities to change their mindset and to be accommodative to the sick people by giving them the vacant beds in different wards.’ Six days have elapsed, but things have not changed. The corridor continues to be filled with stop-gap beds with patients, while there are large number of vacant beds in medical wards and surgical wards. This correspondent had an incognito visit to the hospital today.
An elderly woman who attends to her ailing 70-year-old husband pondered as to why the available beds in medical and private wards are not allotted to those lying in the corridor. She said, “I saw a number of beds lying vacant, but not a single one is given to us”. If the Governor is hearing, the assurances made by the officials during his surprise visit last week are a mere hoax. A group of doctors who accompanied the Governor during that visit made certain excuses before Mooshahary in front of the press. The Governor even asked them to erect a temporary partition in the wards to accommodate the poor ailing patients. They assured the Governor of doing that during this period of President’s rule, but nothing has happened in spite of his instruction.
Moreover, it is learnt that on Sunday, a number of ward boys left the duty assigned to them on some nurses. Their duty includes ferrying of hot and cold water to the wards and cleaning of the toilets. THE SENTINEL
An elderly woman who attends to her ailing 70-year-old husband pondered as to why the available beds in medical and private wards are not allotted to those lying in the corridor. She said, “I saw a number of beds lying vacant, but not a single one is given to us”. If the Governor is hearing, the assurances made by the officials during his surprise visit last week are a mere hoax. A group of doctors who accompanied the Governor during that visit made certain excuses before Mooshahary in front of the press. The Governor even asked them to erect a temporary partition in the wards to accommodate the poor ailing patients. They assured the Governor of doing that during this period of President’s rule, but nothing has happened in spite of his instruction.
Moreover, it is learnt that on Sunday, a number of ward boys left the duty assigned to them on some nurses. Their duty includes ferrying of hot and cold water to the wards and cleaning of the toilets. THE SENTINEL
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