The 200-bed hospital is inadequate as patients from Bara, Parsa, Rautahat, Sarlahi, Makwanpur, and neighboring India visit the hospital. Hospital authorities claim that they need 600 beds to serve the people of the region.
At the hospital, around 100 cases come to the emergency ward and more than 1,500 at the Outpatient Department every day. To compound matters, only 17 doctors of the quota of 42 and 23 nurses of the appointed 41 are working at the hospital. "The flow of patients is more than 300% of the capacity of the hospital while the number of medical staff is only half of the quota," laments hospital chief Dr Suman Prasad.
The patients coming here for treatment face an ordeal in the lack of proper facilities. "While the patients suffer mosquito bites for the whole night and the fate of attendants is even worse," says Raju Chaudhari of Parsa. The sorry state of the hospital has forced patients to search for alternative and many are now visiting the Duncan Hospital in neighboring India.
Hospital chief Dr Prasad says that he had informed Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal about the state of the hospital during the latter´s recent visit to Birgunj but nothing has improved despite Dahal´s promise to do the needful.
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