Revenue officials took over the running of the Government General Hospital (GGH) here on Sunday.
Joint Collector Gaurav Uppal visited the GGH and reviewed the availability of doctors in different wards. Two Revenue Inspectors had been posted at the hospital to monitor the situation on a case-to-case basis.
Mr. Uppal visited the causality, trauma care unit, and the acute medical ward and interacted with patients and their relatives to find out about the ground situation.
“In all, 107 junior doctors are on strike. About 70 senior and junior doctors have been drafted on a temporary basis from private medical colleges and PHCs in the district to attend to the emergency medical services,” Mr. Gaurav said. Students doing their post-graduation were also temporarily put on duty at the GGH. Three teams of doctors, comprising a senior doctor, an orthopaedic surgeon, and eight other doctors, had been constituted to work in shifts to take care of the patients, Mr Gaurav said.
The Joint Collector said that district Collector S.A.M. Rizvi ordered an inquiry into the death of a woman in the GGH. He said the inquiry report said that the woman was admitted to the hospital by relatives in a very critical condition and she died despite the doctors attending to her immediately.
Revenue Divisional Officer S. Venkata Rao, Vijayawada Urban tahsildar J. Srinivas, hospital superintendent P. Ramababu, RMO Savitramma, and DMHO Saraseejakshi were at the hospital when the Joint Collector visited it.
Services hit
The junior doctors' strike had a serious impact at the Government General Hospital here. Some 20 persons have died in the last couple of days which is said to be normal by the hospital authorities. The Medical & Health Department has posted 80 doctors, some of them from NRI Medical College & General Hospital at Mangalagiri, and primary health centres on deputation in important wards of the GGH. The focus is on intensive care units, paediatric, cardiology, and other wards. GGH Superintendent Ch. Mohan Rao is submitting shift-wise reports to the In-Charge Collector N. Yuvaraj and keeping him informed of the situation.
DMHO M. Gopi Naik and Guntur Medical College Principal K.S. Vara Prasad are monitoring the services being rendered at GGH.
