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Patients make a beeline to Gandhi Hospital
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Communication gap over relocation of some of the wings of the Osmania General Hospital (OGH) has led to a peculiar situation. Mistaking that the several wings of the OGH has already been shifted to other hospitals and the building demolished, patients in large numbers are making a beeline to Gandhi Hospital now.
- Communication gap over relocation of Osmania General Hospital wings leads to a peculiar situation
- Doctors say they cannot do full justice to patients
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Hyderabad: Communication gap over relocation of some of the wings of the Osmania General Hospital (OGH) has led to a peculiar situation. Mistaking that the several wings of the OGH has already been shifted to other hospitals and the building demolished, patients in large numbers are making a beeline to Gandhi Hospital now.With the media giving massive publicity to the Chief Minister, K Chandrashekar Rao’s announcement that the medical wings of the OGH would be shifted to other hospitals and the building would be demolished to facilitate construction of a high-rise complex, the people took it for granted that they cannot seek medical care from OGH
There is now huge increase in the number of inpatients and outpatients at Gandhi Hospital. According to Dr G Venkateswarlu, Superintendent of the Gandhi Hospital, the hospital used to receive between 2,500 and 3,000 outpatients and 250 inpatients a day. Now the number of outpatients has increased by 60 and inpatients by 50 a day, he said.
A doctor at Gandhi Hospital said he used to examine 100 patients a day and now the number had increased to 300. It became difficult for him to spend even two to three minutes to examine each patient, he said. It would not be possible to do justice to patients unless the government provided medicines and surgical apparatus, besides staff, he said.
As far as relocation of the wings of the OGH, only Orthopaedic Department was partially shifted to King Koti Hospital. Minister for Health C Lakshman Reddy, accompanied by high officials and team of doctors from the OGH, went round the city and identified some hospital for relocation of the OGH wings.
Dr Gopala Kishan, president of the Osmania Medical College Old Students Association Trust, however said it was impossible to shift all the wings in one week. It should be done in a systematic way, he felt.
By:V Naveen Kumar
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