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To the help of SAT Hospital

Staff Reporter

Thiruvananthapuram: A few helping hands could make all the difference in the way in which resource-strapped Government hospitals deliver healthcare to the public. This was the message that the Government sought to convey when it mooted the idea of accredited voluntary organisations chipping in to improve the conditions and facilities in Government hospitals.

The SAT hospital in the city, the largest women and children's hospital in the State, has been going all out to attract sponsors to fulfil small yet necessary basic requirements in the hospital. Its first hospital friends' committee meeting called in February had evoked a good response from many non-governmental organisations, which had promised to help the hospital improve its services.

One of the offers extended to the hospital was fulfilled promptly when the city chapter of Giants International handed over bed linen worth Rs.10,000 to the District Collector and chairman of SAT Hospital development committee N. Ayyappan on Thursday.

Despite being a premier medical institution in the public sector, where over 20,000 deliveries take place annually, SAT hospital too goes through daily hassles over shortage of bed linen, hospital furniture, broken down equipment, lack of cleaning staff and facilities such as dining halls, dormitories and drinking water for visitors to the hospital.

Already a few voluntary organisations are helping out at SAT hospital, by way of ward adoption, provision of food to poor patients and so on. Several organisations, including the Federation of Residents' Associations, Confederation of Residents' Associations, the Lions and Rotary clubs, the Round Table, public sector banks to name a few, had taken part in the meeting last month and promised assistance to the hospital.

They have pledged to help with the computerisation of the hospital, construction of waiting sheds, putting up sign boards, providing hospital furniture, necessary repairs and planting saplings around the campus.

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