The hospital needs resuscitation

All of this because the hospital is beset with problems like criminals and commission agents raring to lure the patients away to private clinics. Obviously, a hospital cannot render services if incoming patients and their escorts have to worry about security. It seems that outsiders have introduced some kind of an invisible management and the loser is the poor patient and the hospital itself which could have otherwise provided much better medical services.

The management of the hospital being run under a project is tentative in nature which stands in the way of administering the hospital effectively. But senior doctors believe that it has the infrastructure to be transformed into a medical university. We endorse their views. Actually, the health ministry had a plan to set up a medical college at the hospital, but nothing tangible has happened so far, except for the formation of a 16-member committee to deal with the issue.

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Now, a country with our resource constraints can ill afford to leave a hospital having such a vast potential to serve patients in this kind of disarray.

The poor performance of the hospital stems basically from management inadequacies. The project status of the hospital has to be ended to let it acquire a permanent footing. And then the hospital can be developed with a long term plan and vision. For the time being, the irritants plaguing the hospital will have to be removed by adopting the necessary administrative measures.