Though the number of diarrhea patients has been increasing with the rise in temperature, they have been forced to defecate in the open.[break]
Jay Chandra Patel of Jethrahiya VDC took his one-and-a-half year old son David Patel to a hospital in Bairginia, India. “I took my son to India as the district hospital does not have a toilet,” said Patel to Republica.
As the hospital lacks toilet in both the emergency and OPD wards, hundreds of patients have been forced to defecate out in the open. Likewise, health workers in the hospital also rush home to respond to nature´s call leaving critically ill patients unattended, informed Pankaj Thakur, assistant health worker at the hospital.
After the old building of the hospital was pulled down to construct a new one, the district hospital is running without a toilet. “There is not toilet in the hospital,” said Pramod Yadav, another assistant health worker of the hospital.
Likewise, Birendra Karki, an official at the Public Health Office said the contractors are yet to hand over the new building to the hospital administration.
Even though former minister for Health and Population Rajendra Mahato has already inaugurated the new building some six months ago, construction works are still incomplete.
Chief District Health Officer Akhilesh Prasad Singh has assured that he would arrange for a toilet by the next week.
The contractors were supposed to handover the new hospital building by 2007.
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