Seti Provincial Hospital ill-equipped for the current COVID crisis
Dhangadhi: Subash Bhatt of Dhangadhi visited Seti Provincial Hospital for his mother's treatment. She was adimitted to the hospital after she tested positive for Coronavirus.
According to Bhatta the doctor came and dignosed her on her first day of admission but thereafter, the doctors haven't visited the hospital in four days.
Bhatta complained that no doctors came on rounds to see his mother."We have not seen the doctor's face in four days.
There are only 3/4 nurses here. While, the nurses themselves look tired. We don't have anyone avalible to hear our complains as well. 'A patient said that the management inside the hospital is also not very active.
He told Dinesh Khabar that damaged equipment are kept inside the hospital and sanitation is done once a day. "There are no comfortable beds and everything is unsanitary, dustbins are full of garbage.
”said another patient, Kuruva Ramesh Malla (name changed). The toilet are extremly dirty. Is this the service provided by the state government? asked a patient.
'Another patient, Kuruwa, that even after one and a half years of the pandamic the Covid Hospital in front of the Ministry of Social Development is not well equiped, the patients are having to carry oxygen cylinders due to lack of easy supply of oxygen. Stating that he was going to fetch oxygen, he said, "When oxygen comes in the car, the patients are in a state of panic."
He asked, "Who should we express our grief to?"The Covid temporary hospital set up by the state's social development ministry last year under the Seti provincial hospital is now full of infected people.
Similarly, some infected and potentially infected people have to be treated in the emergency ward of the hospital.
According to the hospital, the patients are sitting in the gallery with their beds from home after the 16 beds in the emergency ward were filled by Thursday. The only Covid temporary hospital built last year has 60 beds and is currently treating 60 people.
According to Dilip Kumar Shrestha, information officer of the hospital, 12 of them are undergoing treatment with ICU, 3 people are on a ventilator, 35 with oxygen support and 10 with oxygen cylinder.
