Afraid nurses shirk isolation ward duties at Kakinada GGH

KAKINADA: Fearing coronavirus contamination from a China-returned man, who was kept under observation in the isolation ward of Kakinada Government General Hospital (GGH), nursing staff as well as students did not attend to their duties on Sunday and Monday. However, they went on ward duty on Tuesday.

According to reports, one of the staff nurses tried to send nursing students on ward duty but they refused to do so. Consequently, the former complained to the nursing superintendent that the students did not attend to their duties.

The problem was aggravated when even nursing staff rejected to go there.At 8pm on Sunday, the nursing students were given isolation ward duties. However, they refrained from doing so and stood in front of the nigh super’s room till midnight. The same was repeated on the next day.

Meanwhile, parents of the students requested Kakinada GGH not to give isolation ward duty to their wards.

GGH Superintendent Dr M Raghavendra Rao said the nurses finally relented on Tuesday.

“Nurses are being given isolation ward duty on rotation basis to ensure services at the hospital are not affected,” Raghavendra Rao said.