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Medical Council team detects stop gap arrangements in general hospital

Staff Reporter

Asks doctors and nurses as to from where they had come from for the exhibition of strength

ANANTAPUR: Efforts of the authorities of General Hospital and the Government Medical College here to impress the visiting team of Medical Council of India (MCI) to assess the infrastructure to permit the admissions for coming academic year were failed here on Friday.

The MCI team expressed dissatisfaction over the infrastructure and the facilities in the hospital.

The MCI team comprising Nandagopal (Bangalore), Anup Raj (Delhi) and Kohli (Delhi) inspected the General Hospital in its entirety and also had a head count of the doctors and other staff available. The team would inspect the medical college on Saturday.

They team was even learnt to have asked a few doctors and nursing staff as to where they had come from for exhibition of strength during the team's visit.

In fact, some 90 doctors in various capacities and other staff were learnt to have been deputed to the General Hospital and Medical College from Kurnool, Tirupati and Visakhapatnam to get clearance of the MCI.

Lack of staff

The team was learnt to have suggested the hospital authorities not to relieve the doctors and other staff who were deputed here for the purpose of the MCI visit. The team was said to have expressed dissatisfaction on the arrangements for disposal of medical waste and lack of staff and equipment in ICCU.

Against the regular presence of 2 or 3 patients in ICCU, some 15 patients were kept in ICCU on Friday to impress the MCI team, the hospital sources said.

After finding that the occurrence of deaths was high in the casualty ward, the MCI team was learnt to have asked the hospital authorities to increase the number of beds by 20 and make one more doctor available in the ward.

The MCI team was also said to have detected that the central sterilisation unit and orthopaedic surgery unit were opened only for their visit.

Some patients and their attendants were found asking the hospital staff as to why so many doctors were visiting the wards today, as vacancies of doctors and other staff do not allow such constant visits everyday.

Hospital Superintendent Prabhakar Rao and Resident Medical Officer Ramasubba Rao accompanied the MCI team during its inspection.

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