With staff strike at Govt facility, patient load at Swami Dayanand Hospital increased: EDMC
Due to strike of nursing orderly staff at Delhi government run GTB Hospital, patient load at Swami Dayanand Hospital has increased, said Rajni Khendwal, medical superintendent of the hospital.;
New Delhi: Patient load at Swami Dayanand Hospital, the only civic facility in east Delhi, has increased due to ''strike'' of various staff at a city government-run hospital in the area, EDMC authorities said on Friday.
The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) on Thursday had said that it had suspended all surgeries except those for deliveries at SDN Hospital due to the rising number of dengue patients at the facility.
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''Due to strike of nursing orderly staff at Delhi government-run GTB Hospital, patient load at Swami Dayanand Hospital has increased. In the morning, in one hour, over 80 patients came into the emergency department, mostly running fever or related to MLCs (medico-legal cases),'' said Rajni Khendwal, medical superintendent of the hospital.
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