condition of patients in a government hospital

 

What is the condition of patients in a government hospital?

Well, Mostly only those patients choose to go to government hospital, who cannot afford private healthcare, (except AIIMS ,PGI and other famous institutes where most of the celebrities go.)

Let me narrate few incidents :

1.Whenever a patient arrives in an emergency department, he /she first encounters EMO room, whose job is to assign patient either outpatient treatment or if severe, he/she is required to go to specific emergency room( eg. Surgery, medicine,ortho emergency etc)

During the way, sometimes stretcher is missing and unconscious patient had to wait until it arrives and sometimes attendant goes missing. (as there are only 2–3 stretchers which falls short when patient load increases)

2.Senior doctors are only available 3 times a day( morning rounds, afternoon and evening rounds) who assign medications to the patients and after that patients are handled over to the junior residents( senior residents also stay for a short period of time )

In the meantime ,medicating the patients is the sole responsibility of the nursing staff after junior residents writes the medications on the patients cardboard hanging besides bed. Medicating the patients depends on the mood of the nurses , who many times go missing(especially in night duty) and patients shouts on interns .

I have seen many a times patients are not given even painkillers ,who requests to the interns but the intern is also busy blood sampling( assigned to him by jr) .

Sometimes doctors react to patients in a strange way , ( although this harsh behaviour is only to discipline the patients, but which may be the cause of arrogent behaviour of the patients).

Some patients are also very aggresive and dont treat doctors kindly and start making video whenever any incident happens.

3. Once in an operation theatre, i was told to hit OT LIGHT, during an ongoing Appendix surgery because it was not working and previously also they made it work by hitting it( on asking i was told that this LIGHT often stops working sometimes). I was shocked.

The AC in operation theatre was not working , and i saw sweat dribbling from the resident's forehead directly into the opened abdomen.(it was horrible) but i remained quiet.

4. There were 3 ventilators in paediatric department, but none of them was working. All the infants needing ventilatory support were had to be refered to PGI after a small delay.

Only those patients were kept , who were mildly diseased , (all the severe patients were immediately refered to higher institutes.

And ambulance facility was also not good. Sometimes in midnight patients were told either to wait for government ambulance (which was busy somewhere) or to arrange their private ambulance (which was a bit costly).

There are a lot more incidents but i end here.


Conclusion: All these things occur only due to incapability of the government, doctors and nurses are not the culprits, what can they do when there is no oxygen at hospitals,  

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