As the hospital is running in loss, TUTH has taken loans of Rs 10 million from the Dean´s Office of the Institute of Medical Sciences (IOM).[break]
The hospital has borrowed money from the Dean´s Office for the second consecutive year. Last year also TUTH sought Rs 50 million loan from the Dean´s Office to pay salarites to its saffers.
"The hospital is being used as a jobs bank, where new hands are brought in with the change in government," IOM Dean Arun Sayami said.
The hospital staff get 50 percent extra salary every month. They also get 90 percent discount in treatment for their relatives in the hospital including the medicine. The hospital also provide 50 percent discount on treatment cost and medicine to all TU staff from across the country.
Dr Sayami blames the practice of giving extra 50 percent salaries to the staffers as main cause of problems.
The system of giving extra payment was started as a means of compensating the doctors for not practicing outside. But soon it was extended to all employees following pressures from trade unions and now it has become just a financial burden with the doctors and other staffers working outside even after taking the extra salary.
None of the staffers of the hospital are transferred out but new staffers keep joining the hospital mostly in the administration section. TU rector and registrar just before the expiry of their own terms, bring in their own people, Dr Sayami said. Apart from that staffers are transferred to the hospital under pressure from major parties.
"The hospital is already overstaffed. The rector and registrar before the end of their terms would transfer their own people to the hospital," Director of the hospital, Dr Keshav Prasad Singh, said. There are altogether 545 staff at the administration department of the hospital. There are altogether 1354 staffers including doctors, teachers, nurses, technicians and security guards at the hospital.
According to Dr Singh, the TU has to provide funds to hospital for paying salaries, allowance and provident fund of permanent staff but this year TU has not provided any money. The university used to provide Rs140 million per year to the hospital. The hospital has 480 beds and 80 are free of cost.
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