On Thursday, several families from the areas whose children are hospitalised at the city's government hospitals complained that the primary health set-ups closest to their homes lacked the equipment or the number of doctors necessary to treat acute respiratory infections.
On Thursday, Razia Bibi, a mother from Basirhat in the North 24-Parganas district, was sitting in an ambulance outside the Dr BC Roy Post Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences in Kankurgachhi. "Doctors at the state hospital said they did not have adequate facilities to treat my child if he suddenly developed an acute breathing problem," she said. Her son, who was only six months old, was sobbing in her lap. Razia said, "Jodi dom nitey na parey amader okhane ventilator nei" (if the baby strains to breathe, we don't have ventilators).
Abdul Samad, Razia's husband, sells vegetables. The family took an ambulance about 73 kilometres to a state-run hospital that was overrun with people.
No child with a respiratory illness can be referred to a hospital in Kolkata without first verifying that a bed is reserved for them, according to a new advise issued by the health department. If a referral is necessary, it must be made with the knowledge of the hospital's superintendent.
Our neighbourhood in Gorehat is served by a 52-bed state-run block primary hospital. Unfortunately, there just aren't enough medical professionals to go around. According to Tayeb Mollah, a resident of Dakshin Barasat, a village in Jaynagar in the Baruipur subdivision of the South 24-Parganas district, the shortage is so severe that a doctor who attends the outdoor during the day continues throughout the night, attends the outdoor the following day, and then goes home.
Since Tayeb's 13-month-old son Masood had a fever and cough, he had been seeing a private doctor. The doctor recommended taking the kid to a hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday since he was in the pre-pneumonia stage. As a result, Tayeb visited the Dr. BC Roy Institute.
There are too many patients for the Baruipur state general hospital to handle. He emphasised that the facilities were unfit to care for children in a serious condition. Hospital staff and the families of many children said that in every paediatric ward at the Dr. BC Roy Institute, two patients shared a single bed.
The hospital's senior doctors reported that all 400 beds were occupied, and that the newborn intensive care unit and intensive care unit were very busy. Furthermore, they reported that all of the ventilators were in use.
Director of state health services Siddhartha Neogi was asked about complaints about the facilities at district hospitals but stated nothing could be done as long as people continued to travel to Kolkata for care. We've put up a notice telling doctors they shouldn't send patients to Kolkata. What can we do if more and more people keep showing up? Asked he.
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