Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (EP)
Bantwal, Oct 16: The dream of upgrading 30-bed government hospital in Bantwal to 100-bed one is not recent. Patients with different ailments and people such as weak, elderly and physically challenged come here for treatment. However there is only one wheelchair for their needs. Several patients find it difficult to go to the doctors without the wheelchair.
The work in the hospital is in progress since 2012 but the construction is not over yet. A completed portion of the hospital is being used to treat patients at present. Though the doctors here have received a circular that it is 100-bed hospital, it lacks in basic necessities. The doctors hope that the construction work will be completed by November and necessary equipment may reach the hospital.
Though the stock book of the hospital mentions that there are four wheelchairs in the hospital, the remaining three wheelchairs are out of order. Medical officer Radhika says that those chairs need repairs. “We are helpless for want of basic needs,” she says.
The government should provide the items needed in the hospital. Groups and organizations also can try to help.