There are many occasions when 100 patients have to be accommodated with only 50 beds available. Even in the ICU, which has five beds, eight patients have been treated, using trolleys as beds. For a neurosurgeon to work, we need a CT scanner', one consultant surgeon said. An Emergency Treatment Unit is lacking. Serious patients are put directly into the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.
Radiological facilities are also poor, the doctors say.
Although a radiologist has been appointed to the hospital, he has not reported for duty. No action appears to have been taken in this regard. Physiotherapists too are insufficient to handle the work. Considering the number of war casualties handled, the hospital is short of nursing staff, particularly in the operating theatre. Though the required cadre for the theatre is 36, there are only 22 nurses to handle the work load.