The KB Bhabha Hospital in Kurla (west), is in a very bad shape.
It is the only municipal hospital catering to Kurla, Sakinaka, Dharavi, Sion and Ghatkopar, but is in complete shambles. The KB Bhabha Hospital in Kurla (west), is in a very bad shape. Till a month ago, ward boys at the hospital were made to take the electro-cardiogram (ECGs).
Patients have also complained of being referred to the KEM hospital for minor ailments due to lack of proper facilities in the OPD, inaugurated in 2007, at the Bhabha Hospital.
Vinayak Bansode, 30, who recently underwent a toe operation at Bhabha, said: “They asked me to buy a black thread for sutures, the K-wire rod which was put inside my toe, and some costly tablets. What is the use of coming to a municipal hospital when we have to buy everything?”
Vishwas Kamble’s father, a diabetic, was referred to KEM hospital last week. “An injection could have brought down his sugar level. Patients are referred to other hospitals without basic first aid,” Kamble said. Also, there is no emergency ward in the hospital and senior citizens are made to wait in long queues.
The medical superintendent of Bhabha, Dr Shashikant Wadekar, however, does not want to delve on the past. “We have appointed a lady technician now to record the ECG.
Patients requiring super specialty treatment are referred to other tertiary level hospitals.”
According to him, there are five observation beds in front of the chief medical officer (CMO). There are plans of setting up special counters for medicines. A 24-hour X-ray service has been started and a 10-bed emergency medical unit is being planned. A special medicine-dispensing counter exclusively for senior citizens is also in the offing.
On November 18, the Gauri Shankar Krida Mandal (GSKM) had filed an RTI seeking information on the lack of facilities in the hospital. “Rs8 crore was spent on the hospital.
BMC should give some concessions to the poor,” said Ganesh Nakhate, member, GSKM.
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