With the onset of monsoon, the women patients at Osmania General Hospital have no option but to face the testing times. The reason is not the seasonal infections, but the deteriorating structure. As is the norm since over a decade, the female patients and their attendants have been evacuated from the second floor and herded to the first floor.
No beds
The second floor, allotted only for women patients, has leaky roof and cracked walls. The hospital management fears that a portion of the structure may cave in during rains endangering the lives of the patients. But more than 200 patients, who have been shifted to another floor, struggle to find some space, let alone a bed.
The patients have been sleeping on the floor leaving little space for the hospital staff or other patients to move freely. Owing to the existing conditions, the authorities have been trying to shift some patients to another government hospital. “We will shift the patients to Petlaburj hospital. They will be shifted in batches as necessary arrangements have to be made,” said G.V. Murthy, Superintendent of Osmania General Hospital. “Since we do not want to take any risk, we shifted the patients to the first floor. We are trying not to cause any inconvenience to them.”
