Bathrooms on the civil hospital right here have been closed for over 4 months for renovation, troubling sufferers and their attendants. Moreover renovation, sewerage work has additionally been occurring.
Closed for 4 months, the work at civil hospital in Ludhiana is anticipated to finish by January, say officers. (HT File)
Based on senior medical officer (SMO), Dr Harpreet Singh, the bathrooms received’t be opened earlier than January. “The renovation work is going on under the MP LAD programme and will be completed by January,” he stated.
There is just one useful bathroom within the hospital constructing which is a typical facility for women and men within the trauma ward. The adjoining mom and baby hospital additionally has one bathroom useful. Male sufferers and attendants may be seen urinating within the bushes close by across the blood financial institution or the mortuary.
Medical doctors additionally should go to the bathroom within the mom and baby part of the hospital. For the hospital’s renovation, MP Sanjeev Arora has issued funds underneath the MP LAD scheme.
“I have been waiting here for around an hour. There is no toilet here. I will have to go the trauma ward or the MCH. May be in the time it will take, I will miss my number,” stated Manjeet, a affected person visiting the OPD.
In a latest go to to hospital, well being minister Dr Balbir Singh had additionally stated that the renovation work could be full by January.
The renovation work consists of sewage, portray and tile work within the civil hospital constructing. The renovation venture additionally consists of different tasks on the hospital premises.
The bathrooms within the courtyard of the mom and baby part of the hospital are additionally shut. A number of months in the past, the then district commissioner had pulled up the officers involved for the locked bathrooms. He had issued route to open the identical inside every week.
The well being minister has additionally visited the hospital twice in previous 5 months. Regardless of repeated guarantees of creating the power at par with non-public hospitals, not a lot seems to have modified, stated an aged man within the hospital.
Nilesh Kumar, a affected person within the OPD ward of the hospital, stated such works shouldn’t take months. “Toilet is a basic facility that every establishment should have. The renovation work here at the civil hospital should be sped up as patients are being inconvenienced,” he stated.