The hospital doesn´t have enough toilets and even these are too dirty to use. Patients and attendants are being forced to go out of the hospital to respond to nature´s calls. The stench of unkempt toilets reaches even the wards affecting the patients and even raising fears of infection. [break]
There are a total of 16 toilets at the hospital for its staffers, patients and their attendants. While the ones used by the staffers remain padlocked, the others meant for outsiders are at a terrible state.
Social Development Officer at the District Development Committee, Dang, Bal Krishna Khanal had to go to a relative´s house on a motorcycle during his two-day stay at the hospital suffering from diarrhea.
“The toilets in the hospital are not in a condition to be used. We have our house here and also relatives but those coming from outside are suffering a lot,” Khanal said.
The hospital that treats more than 100 patients daily has not made any arrangements to regularly clean the toilets whose pans always remain filled to the top.
“The toilets look like they have been never cleaned and they don´t have sufficient water,” Khanal, who had to regularly call his relatives to hospital to take him to their home during the two-day stay, added.
The rising mercury, apart from increasing the number of patients, has worsened the state of the toilets but the hospital administration claimed the situation is not that bad. “We had cleaned the toilet just four days ago,” Bam Dev Khanal, a hospital administration staffer.
He said the electric motor used to pump water was out of order so there is problem in cleaning. “Now that the motor is repaired, we would clean all toilets and make them usable,” he vowed.
He claimed that there is no sweeper at the hospital in staff quota so the hospital development committee has hired one temporarily.
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