Bloodstained sheets, no fans and unyielding doctors in the ordinary wards of Sassoon Hospital, where patients with symptoms of swine flu are kept, have made their relatives...
Bloodstained sheets, no fans and unyielding doctors in the ordinary wards of Sassoon Hospital, where patients with symptoms of swine flu are kept, have made their relatives...
For Sassoon Hospital patients, who are neither here nor there, it's been a difficult time.
Twelve patients have been admitted with suspected swine flu symptoms and since they haven't been diagnosed with the disease, they haven't had the benefit of the clean and sanitised isolation ward.
Relatives of these patients claim that the hospital has been utterly negligent bedsheets have not been washed for days, there are bloodstains on the sheets and no dustpans to vomit in.
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'Terrible conditions'
Ganesh Katam, whose father has been admitted with pneumonia, a swine flu symptom, said, "My father keeps asking me how I could have taken him to Sassoon. There is blood on his bedsheet and the stench is unbearable.
He had to go to the bathroom all by himself to vomit. I want to take him to another hospital as soon as possible."
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Added Santosh Kole, whose wife Archana was also admitted with pneumonia, "The hospital authorities have not told us anything about Archana's condition."
Bishan Bafna, whose father Bhawarlal too has been admitted, said, "My father was tested for H1N1 on Sunday. The report should've come in 24 hours, but we haven't received any report."
While Dean of Sassoon Hospital, While Arun Jamkhar, refused to comment, Rajabhau Bhonsle, union leader for Class IV employees ward boys, cleaners, aayas said that such employees have not been recruited for a long time.
Currently, only three people an aaya, a ward boy, a cleaner are present per shift.
And while, according to the rules, this group of three should look after only six patients, they have actually been looking after 20 people.
This includes suspected and confirmed swine flu patients. "The authorities should bring about some changes during an epidemic," said Bhonsle.
ABOUT SASSOON
Sassoon is a large state-run hospital with over 1,500 beds. The B J Medical College and a nurses training school is attached to it.
Jewish philanthropist David Sassoon from Mumbai had made a generous donation to build this hospital in 1867.
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