The caretaker of a patient in the paediatric ward has complained to the superintendent of the Government Medical College Hospital, Kalamassery, that the Arogyakiran scheme, under which all children are to be provided free treatment, is not getting implemented in its true spirit.
The complaint said that patients were asked to buy medicines, syringes, thermometer and other items from outside.
Patients also complained about the indifferent and unacceptable behaviour of the staff that had led many people wondering about continuing the treatment there.
Speaking to The Hindu , the patient’s father said that the employees at the medical college may be having their own problems because of the government’s apathy in integrating them into the system, but the conduct towards patients need to be kept up.
The bystanders of the in-patients have to bring and change bedsheets on their own as no staff provided them any service, he said. Staff showed apathy even in recording the patients’ condition, he added.
It is the private hospitals nearby that benefit from the medical college remaining less developed, he added.
In the absence of the full-fledged integration, the hospital development society can take a number of decisions that will help in improving the services, said the father of the patient who was treated in the paediatric department.
