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GGH: Super specialty, yet no MRI scanner
Government General Hospital (GGH), which has attained a super-specialty status by performing open heart surgeries, dialysis for kidney patients and even planning to embark on kidney transplantations in the near future, does not have a MRI scanning machine.
With lack of MRI scanner, patients are forced to go to private labs for tests, who are fleecing them
Guntur: Government General Hospital (GGH), which has attained a super-specialty status by performing open heart surgeries, dialysis for kidney patients and even planning to embark on kidney transplantations in the near future, does not have a MRI scanning machine.
For a hospital, which is catering to even neighbouring districts of Krishna and Prakasam, MRI scanner is crucial equipment. Though the Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas assured sometime back that the hospital will be equipped with the MRI scanner, it is yet to be met.
The city has two scanners in private laboratories and hospitals and the patients depend on these private hospitals and labs, which charge anywhere between Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000 for a single diagnostic scan.
According to sources, private hospitals are influencing the authorities against equipping the GGH with MRI as that would mean a drastic fall in the revenues.
It is learnt that even if a patient, who got scanned in their laboratory asked for a copy as he lost the report, they would not oblige the request. Instead the hospital authorities state that the medical reports are deleted and the patients have to go for scanning again.
The patients are unhappy with the lackadaisical attitude of the government towards the government hospitals. In the absence of the MRI scanning machine, the doctors are forced to send the patients to private laboratories for getting the scan done.
Apart from that the patients have to contend with long queues at the X-Ray units. Despite the hospital having three X-Ray units, they are unable to cater to the stream of patients.
Speaking to The Hans India GGH superintendent Raju Naidu admitted that as of now they do not have an MRI scanner but would be procuring it soon. He asserted that proposals were sent to the State government regarding the same.
On increasing the number of X-Ray units, the superintendent said that there is no immediate scope for increasing the units as the hospital is fairly equipped as per norms.
