Ccpur Dist Hospital in dire need of staff
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 27 2021:
Despite being on the threshold to upgrade to medical college, the District Hospital Churachandpur is currently in dire need of staff particularly, suitable Anesthetists and nursing staff.
This shortage of staff is a threat to the overall performance of the hospital as it can lead to withholding of emergency operations any moment.
A patient party awaiting an emergency CS operation recently reported that the hospital has only one Anaesthetist available and in the event of the sole Doctor facing an unavoidable engagement or illness, the hospital will be as good as having no Anaesthetist at all.
The case, when enquired with the hospital management was surprisingly spot-on as they claimed they in fact have two Anesthetists but one of them is on leave.
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The clarification from the hospital thus confirmed that the hospital has only Anaesthetist available at present and this is very likely to hamper his performance as he has to attend all the routine and emergency operations single handedly.
This also plainly means that the OT services will be in haywire in the absence of the only Doctor.
Though the hospital authority has claimed that there are so far no cases where they have denied their services due to the unavailability of Anesthetists, it is something which is certain to strike and haunt them anytime.
The nursing staff in the hospital too are in acute shortage as there are a little over 30 nurses against the need of over a hundred to attend the hospital wards.
The shortage was particularly felt when wards are heaving with patients.
Currently the hospital's paediatric ward is crowded with children due to the seasonal flu that had hit the district since the first half of October.
It is in situations such as these that the shortage was felt the most as patient parties kept complaining about the services of the hospital.
The shortage of the nursing staff had reportedly worsened recently with the termination of the contractual staff engaged for District Covid Health Centre.
Churachandpur District Hospital, being the largest hospital managed by the State and the largest in terms of patient intake needs to match public expectations.