AGARTALA, May 19 (TIWN): Even though health Department has taken huge initiative for the development of health care facilities in Tripura and built several numbers of hospitals after spending a hefty amount of public money in the sub-division of Tripura for providing health care facilities to the common public. Unfortunately, maximum of the hospital lack in providing basic health care facilities in the hospitals.

According to the experts, the major issue in the sub-divisional hospital is that no doctors are regularly witnessed available for treating the poor patients and the compounder are seen prescribing medicine to the patient. Sources also reports, there is shortage of bed, there is no continuity in the visits of the doctors, the medication of the patient in the hospital is equally improper. 

Even the nurse also fails in performing their duty and always poses a sluggish attitude towards providing service to the patient. There is no availability of sufficient diagnostic machine in the hospital. It is also alleged that the patients are randomly treated by any of the intern doctors with any consult from the senior doctors.

The scenario is no longer different in the hospitals of Agartala city. Over and again we have also witnessed how the service scenario has deteriorated in the hospitals of Agartala as well. The state most important referral hospital AGMC has always come into the headlines with its poor services in the hospital. The hospital lacks in basic amenities of daily life. Day after day the patient faces huge crisis in the treatment facility with the problem of power disruption at regular intervals in the premises of the hospital.

It has come into our eye that power disruption for hours leads the patients to wait in long queue in front of the X-ray division of the hospital for doing the X-ray as prescribed by the doctors. Unfortunately, the patient does not have access to major drinking water; only one water purifier is available in the ground floor of the hospital which fails to provide drinking water to the common public in the hospital.

 Similarly, the scenario of the IGM hospital is no longer different from that of AGMC hospital. The patient and their family members have alleged that most of the junior doctors and staffs are ill-mannered, rude, lethargic and they treats the patients in a negligence way.  Allegedly, a section of govt.  Doctors refuse to come to the hospital as they had to attend patient in their private chambers.

Recently it was learnt that some 10 senior doctors were noticed show cause by the state govt. for refraining from hospital duties as they were treating patients in their private chambers.

The medicos comprising of assistant professors and associate professors of AGMC and IGM hospital have allegedly been doing private practice during duty hours resulting the junior interns to run the entire hospital in the peak hours of patient visit.

 A section of patient parties alleged that at the time of emergency they find no senior doctors in the hospital to visit their patients and besides even if some remains present in they refuse to visit the doctors.

Besides, it is worthy to mention here that such an act on the part of a section of senior doctors has ruined the health care system in the hospital.