Hyderabad: Doctors, paramedical staff and nurses of Osmania General Hospital protested outside the gates for one hour in the afternoon to remind Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao to keep his promise of building new premises for the hospital.
The joint action committee has taken recourse to protests claiming that their efforts to communicate to the government on the issue via doctors’ association and the director of health and medical education had not yielded any results.
Joint action committee in-charge Dr O. P. Naik said, “We will hold protest for one hour every day. If the government fails to address our issues, we will stop providing all elective services next week.”
The medical team at OGH is upset over a shortfall of nurses, 100 paramedical staff and 60 doctors at the hospital which has affected its functioning as also the quality of medical care to patients. A senior doctor said, “After the recent promotions, there is a major deficit of staff at the middle level which is affecting the medical care.”
According to sources, the medical team at OGH is sore that the hospital has not been given the due attention which has caused a major delay in setting up of a new hospital building. Hospital staff said drainage system in the old building was collapsing because of which drains were overflowing constantly. This had become a major sanitation issue affecting the patients and doctors. A senior doctor said, “The functioning of the hospital hasn’t changed even after the appointment of a new sanitation contractor. The number of people working at the hospital is much lower than what is shown on paper.”
