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2 pregnant women sharing a bed is no surprise at CKM Maternity Hospital
The road to motherhood is fraught with high risk for those visiting the CKM Maternity Hospital, where two, at times three pregnant women sharing one bed is no surprise. The hospital, one of the three major ones in the city, is entangled in a host of problems ranging from shortage of staff to lack of adequate infrastructure.
Warangal: The road to motherhood is fraught with high risk for those visiting the CKM Maternity Hospital, where two, at times three pregnant women sharing one bed is no surprise. The hospital, one of the three major ones in the city, is entangled in a host of problems ranging from shortage of staff to lack of adequate infrastructure.
The government, which upgraded the 60-bedded hospital to 100-bedded in 1993, forgot depute adequate staff since then. As a result, the hospital that receives 500 plus antenatal (Out Patient) cases every day besides taking care of 250 plus inpatients at any given point of time is struggling to provide proper care to its patients.
As if this was not enough, the number of antenatal cases witnessed a steep rise since the government introduced KCR Kits Scheme providing a gift hamper worth Rs 2,000, besides a cash of Rs 12,000 to mothers of boys and Rs 13,000 to mothers of girls in four installments. The severity of the situation could be gauged from the fact that two pregnant women are being forced to share one bed.
Even more surprising is that the emergency backup generator has been snag-ridden for the last three months. However, the hospital sources say that they were fortunate that there was no power outage in the recent past, it’s alleged that there were several instances of using torch lights to complete the surgeries whenever there was a power shutdown.
Equally appalling is that the blood bank sanctioned for the hospital by the then Rajya Sabha member Gundu Sudha Rani under MP LADS funds in 2012 is yet get off the blocks. The machinery is lying waste in a locked room.
“We have no other option but to accept whatever facilities available here,” S Ramana, a patient’s close relative said, adding further that there was no sufficient water in the hospital.
Speaking to The Hans India, the hospital Superintendent Dr P Rajendra Parsad said: “The hospital is struggling to cope up ever increasing number of patients. We cannot deny admission to patients.
There was no adequate staff since the hospital was upgraded to 100-bedded in 1993. We have sent proposals to the government to fill the vacant posts in the hospital.”
Admitting the fact of two patients sharing one bed, Warangal DM&HO Dr B Harish Raj said that steps are being taken to address the problem. The issue was also noticed by the State-level observers in a recent visit, he added.
