HYDERABAD: With patient footfall across health centres, tertiary hospitals and area hospitals reaching nearly double their capacity, both manpower and infrastructure are crippling under pressure.
Long queues of patients waiting for their turn to go into out-patient department and a longer queue for patients waiting to give a blood sample for tests were seen at the state-run Fever Hospital, where the OP load has crossed 2,000 per day, as against the regular 1,000.
“We came here from Qutubulapur for a follow up, but the OP queue hasn’t moved an inch for the last one hour. It’s difficult for patients to stand in queues,” said Zaheera Bi, a patient.
Around 10-15 per cent of healthcare staffers at staterun Fever Hospital are ill due to contagious viral infections. “There are so many patients pouring in from early morning hours. The poor staff strength is resulting in delays in diagnostic services and OP as well. There are fewer hands to do preliminary tests such as recording BP and taking down vitals,” said a staff nurse at the hospital.
At Gandhi Hospital and Osmania General Hospital, patients had to wait for 15-20 minutes for a stretcher and wheelchairs were difficult to find, say patients. “I looked for a stretcher all over and was finally asked to go to the third floor to look in the mortuary,” said Saidulu, who had come with his father.
Long queues of patients waiting for their turn to go into out-patient department and a longer queue for patients waiting to give a blood sample for tests were seen at the state-run Fever Hospital, where the OP load has crossed 2,000 per day, as against the regular 1,000.
“We came here from Qutubulapur for a follow up, but the OP queue hasn’t moved an inch for the last one hour. It’s difficult for patients to stand in queues,” said Zaheera Bi, a patient.
Around 10-15 per cent of healthcare staffers at staterun Fever Hospital are ill due to contagious viral infections. “There are so many patients pouring in from early morning hours. The poor staff strength is resulting in delays in diagnostic services and OP as well. There are fewer hands to do preliminary tests such as recording BP and taking down vitals,” said a staff nurse at the hospital.
At Gandhi Hospital and Osmania General Hospital, patients had to wait for 15-20 minutes for a stretcher and wheelchairs were difficult to find, say patients. “I looked for a stretcher all over and was finally asked to go to the third floor to look in the mortuary,” said Saidulu, who had come with his father.
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