Jaipur: ‘Chaotic and exhausting’ is how patients describe the facilities at the government-run Mahila Chikitsalaya at Sanganeri Gate.
Women patients, including the pregnant, are seen having to walk long distances for facilities like blood test, registration and sonography, and there is hardly space for them to sit and relax a little. The small OPD lobby, which is actually a passage or corridor, lacks enough sitting arrangements, and the patients are confined to the cramped space, a passage connecting the indoor wards with the OPD.
“It is a government hospital. What else can we expect from it?” asked Rekha Sharma, the attendant and sister of a patient who came from Karauli district for treatment, displaying that people’s perception about government hospitals in the state has hardly changed. “Getting treatment here remains a tough task,” she added.
Guards at the hospital are seen putting extra efforts to control the crowd outside the OPD room, but hardly any hospital staff is seen helping the harried patients. Both the guards and the hospital staff often speak with the patients heedlessly as almost every patient who needs to know something goes to them.
“Men, please stand aside,” screams a guard standing in the passage outside the OPD room, trying to control the rush and ensure women patients get easy access.
Unlike any other OPD, where sitting arrangement is ensured outside OPD rooms, just a few iron chairs joined with one another have been placed in the corridor outside the OPD lobby alongside the two walls. All are occupied almost always, and scores of patients are seen standing as they wait for their turns.
The counter for registration for sonography, situated in the passage connecting the sonography centre with the OPD room, witnesses serpentine queues of women patients sanding for their turns to ensure sonography is done the same day. Or else there are chances that they would be asked to come the next day.
For giving blood samples, the patients are asked to go outside the OPD building, walking the distance to reach the lab. “My daughter-in-law forgot to get the billing done at counter 16. So she was asked to get it done first before giving the blood sample here. She has now to walk all the way,” said Sita Devi, a resident of Sarai Baori of Amber area.
Women patients have to stand in multiple queues from registration counter to the OPD room to see doctors, to get the billing done at a counters, and to get medicines.
Women patients, including the pregnant, are seen having to walk long distances for facilities like blood test, registration and sonography, and there is hardly space for them to sit and relax a little. The small OPD lobby, which is actually a passage or corridor, lacks enough sitting arrangements, and the patients are confined to the cramped space, a passage connecting the indoor wards with the OPD.
“It is a government hospital. What else can we expect from it?” asked Rekha Sharma, the attendant and sister of a patient who came from Karauli district for treatment, displaying that people’s perception about government hospitals in the state has hardly changed. “Getting treatment here remains a tough task,” she added.
Guards at the hospital are seen putting extra efforts to control the crowd outside the OPD room, but hardly any hospital staff is seen helping the harried patients. Both the guards and the hospital staff often speak with the patients heedlessly as almost every patient who needs to know something goes to them.
“Men, please stand aside,” screams a guard standing in the passage outside the OPD room, trying to control the rush and ensure women patients get easy access.
Unlike any other OPD, where sitting arrangement is ensured outside OPD rooms, just a few iron chairs joined with one another have been placed in the corridor outside the OPD lobby alongside the two walls. All are occupied almost always, and scores of patients are seen standing as they wait for their turns.
The counter for registration for sonography, situated in the passage connecting the sonography centre with the OPD room, witnesses serpentine queues of women patients sanding for their turns to ensure sonography is done the same day. Or else there are chances that they would be asked to come the next day.
For giving blood samples, the patients are asked to go outside the OPD building, walking the distance to reach the lab. “My daughter-in-law forgot to get the billing done at counter 16. So she was asked to get it done first before giving the blood sample here. She has now to walk all the way,” said Sita Devi, a resident of Sarai Baori of Amber area.
Women patients have to stand in multiple queues from registration counter to the OPD room to see doctors, to get the billing done at a counters, and to get medicines.
