HYDERABAD: A sudden power cut in Gandhi hospital, Telangana’s only exclusive Covid-19 facility left doctors on tenterhooks and patients gasping for breath on Thursday, while a flooded ward at Osmania General Hospital (OGH) shocked patients who had just moved from a dilapidated block for the same reason.
Witnesses and doctors said the state-run Gandhi hospital, which is the nodal centre for treating Covid-19 patients and has nearly 200 patients on ventilators, was without power supply for several minutes. Although the hospital has two back-up generators, they did not start instantly due to technical issues.
“During the power cut, two patients in the 7th floor developed some complications but were managed,” said an insider.
Hospital superintendent Dr Raja Rao said there was a sudden shutdown of electrical supply in Gandhi hospital at about 5.35pm and restored at 5.56pm.
“Our generators started functioning by 5.42 pm, within 7 minutes of the power cut, no problems occurred in emergency or ICU areas or in other patient care areas,” he said.
While at OGH, barely a day after the state health authorities decided to seal the old building due to extensive flooding, rainwater gushed into the ward where all the patients were shifted.
Earlier, rainwater and drainage water had flooded into wards on the ground floor of the old heritage building twice over the last 10 days, leading to public anger over the poor conditions at the hospital.
This led to the hospital becoming a hotspot of political activity and ultimately the health authorities decided to seal the building, and the patients housed in the old block were shifted to the new QQDC building.
“There is a ramp on the rooftop of the Quli Qutub Shah building, from which rainwater rushed down into the ward on the 5th floor. For about two and half hours we had to work in the flooded ward. This ward was earlier not used, but now patients were shifted from the old block,” said a doctor at the ward on Thursday.
Witnesses and doctors said the state-run Gandhi hospital, which is the nodal centre for treating Covid-19 patients and has nearly 200 patients on ventilators, was without power supply for several minutes. Although the hospital has two back-up generators, they did not start instantly due to technical issues.
“During the power cut, two patients in the 7th floor developed some complications but were managed,” said an insider.
Hospital superintendent Dr Raja Rao said there was a sudden shutdown of electrical supply in Gandhi hospital at about 5.35pm and restored at 5.56pm.
“Our generators started functioning by 5.42 pm, within 7 minutes of the power cut, no problems occurred in emergency or ICU areas or in other patient care areas,” he said.
While at OGH, barely a day after the state health authorities decided to seal the old building due to extensive flooding, rainwater gushed into the ward where all the patients were shifted.
Earlier, rainwater and drainage water had flooded into wards on the ground floor of the old heritage building twice over the last 10 days, leading to public anger over the poor conditions at the hospital.
This led to the hospital becoming a hotspot of political activity and ultimately the health authorities decided to seal the building, and the patients housed in the old block were shifted to the new QQDC building.
“There is a ramp on the rooftop of the Quli Qutub Shah building, from which rainwater rushed down into the ward on the 5th floor. For about two and half hours we had to work in the flooded ward. This ward was earlier not used, but now patients were shifted from the old block,” said a doctor at the ward on Thursday.
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