Uttarakhand: Doon hospital in state of disarray

Describing the Doon Hospital conversion into a medical college as a makeshift arrangement, she clarified that once the medical education department’s infrastructure was in place everything would be back the way it was.

A new hospital is to be ready in one-and-a-half year’s time, and is going to be adjacent to the upcoming medical college in Patel Nagar. ‘Meanwhile, we agree that due to lack or poor communication between health and medical education department the system at Doon Hospital went erratic," the minister said. Doon seems to have run out of basic medicines and surgical equipment for operatives; the relatives of patients are being forced to purchase items from outside the hospital for continuation of treatment.

The deteriorating conditions became apparent when one of the doctors performed a caesarean section on a pregnant woman wearing a plastic bag used for dustbins according to sources in the hospital.

On Tuesday, the hospital faced a pathology facility(women’s wing) shut down, leaving patients in a quandary.

"The facility of pathology tests has been shifted to the main hospital, which will benefit the patients in long run. However, currently, they are finding it very difficult to adjust," said Dr. Sunita Singh, pathologist, Doon hospital.