Chandrapur: Congress corporators Devendra Bele and Ashok Nagapure have brought to the fore shocking facts that even as the 100 bedded Covid hospital was started at the women’s hospital in the city, it is rendered non operational thanks to lack of generator and fire audit.
There is lack of doctors and nurses in the hospital to treat the patients, they alleged in a letter to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. Bele charged that guardian minister Vijay Wadettiwar had made tall claims of creating ample Covid treatment facilities in the district during the peak of the first wave.
However, he has failed to fulfill his promises, they alleged. They also alleged that posts of 61 doctors and 135 nurses are vacant in government hospitals. Similarly two oxygen plants having 20 kilo capacity have not started despite assurance. Guardian minister had announced a 300 oxygen bed facility at women hospital, but administration had failed to make it operational so far.
The facility of 180 oxygen bed and 80 beds available at GMCH is insufficient and there is a need for an 100 additional bed facility there. They pointed out that there is a need for a full time physician doctor in Covid ward at GMCH.
Bele alleged that presently physicians pay visit during morning and evening hours and contract workers deployed at the Covid ward are burdened with the responsibility of treating patients in their absence. He has also complained about lack of Remdesivir and other medicines along with oxygen at GMCH and other government covid hospitals. He has also alleged that there are only four to five Covid testing centres in city which is quite insufficient compared to the high population here.