AGARTALA, May 12 (TIWN): Dialysis division which is one of the quintessential divisions of a hospital is running without water for last four days and as expected authorities are in busy in yawning siesta.

Drinking water scarcity has emerged as a major problem for the patients and their attendants at the state’s primer referral GBP hospital

Though there are drinking water kiosks at the entrance each ward, many of them have been lying defunct since long.

“Hundreds of patients come to the hospital and depend on these water kiosks to quench their thirst. The authorities are aware of the problem, but no step is being taken to repair them," said a patient.

The hospital staff, patients and their caretakers are fed up with the water scarcity problem in the hospital. The staff members have been putting pressure on the senior officials to address the problem and the latter are putting the blame on the Agartala City Municipal Council. The patients and their caretakers have been bringing drinking water from outside.

 Despite of the several tall claims no improvement can be noticed in the health service of the state. Lack of treatment and improper treatment is taking away the lives of the people in the state. Still today in this so called ‘Golden Era’ people face negligence in the major referral Hospitals of the State, GB Hospital. Carelessness of the Doctors and Staff in the Hospital risks the life of the people under the Manik Sarkar's Golden era. Allegedly either it is due to the lack of infrastructure or the negligence of the Hospital staffs and the doctors that the patients are facing problem at the major referral GB hospital of the State.

However, this hospital is only hit with the negligence but of most of the Government Hospitals in the State are left in deplorable condition. Some hospitals lack infrastructure, some lack doctors and some face trouble due to the irregularity of the staffs. On the one hand Health Minister Badal Chowdhury claims that health condition has developed in the state but the reality speaks something else.

Negligence of the maintenance of hospitals in Tripura has led to their grim state. Apart from the dirt and filth, the hospitals lack basic infrastructure and medicines. The unhygienic condition at the prominent hospital in the Capital says it all.

The scenario of GB hospital is pitiable with chaos at the emergency ward, hundreds crowding the floor, young women in  pain and their families, all scrambling for space as they wait for their turn to get a bed in the ward.

There is a massive shortage water in govt hospital and still our ministers are never tiered of clamouring about the golden era and its improved health service conditions