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Hospital staff up in arms

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI NOV. 25. Employees of Mata Channan Devi Hospital Union here have written to the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, about "improper and putrid environment" at the hospital, complaining that the needs of neither the patients nor the employees are attended to. The employees have also complained about the dialysis unit of the hospital which, they claim, is riddled with problems.

Shortage of treating physicians, technicians, lack of a separate dialysis unit for ordinary patients of kidney failure from patients who are suffering from Hepatitis B and C, poor maintenance of the dialysis machines, have been highlighted in their letter.

The complain also states that the working staff at the dialysis unit are not properly immunised against Hepatitis A,B,C,D and that due to the lack of technical staff, the sweepers are at times forced to inject in piping of kidney dialazer.

The employees claim that though they have been protesting for quiet sometime now, the administration has turned a blind eye to their needs.

``No patient has ever seen any of the nephrologist or any other doctor during his full duration of dialysis. The doctor visits the dialysis unit for 10 to 20 minutes in a day, even though the hospital charges the patient for the full time. That is not all, for the new patients coming into the hospitals the management and doctors at time don't take the minimum care to check the new patients who come in for dialysis,'' says general secretary of the employees union, Ravinder Kumar.

Union members add that the condition in which the unit employees are required to work is not healthy. "The working staff at the dialysis unit are not immunised. Also, at times sweepers are required to double up for a ward boys and also do the work of technicians and inject the heparin injection into the kidney piping containing the blood which is very dangerous,'' adds Ravinder Kumar.

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