The doctors visit once in seven days because of which patients don’t get their test results on time at Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre (BHMRC), a Madhya Pradesh state government hospital, says a Dainik Bhaskar report.
Patients have to wait for their sonography report sometimes up to 15 days.
Sonography is conducted in the hospital premises by Dr Ruchita but Dr Aman Kumar of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal makes the reports. He comes once in seven days. In his absence, the patients have to wait for 15 days for test results.
A 55-year-old Chola resident told Dainik Bhaskar that he got the sonography done from another hospital when he came to know the reports would take 15 days to arrive.
Seventy-six-year-old Mohammad Yahub of Kazi Camp, who was suffering from back pain said the doctors told him he will receive his report after 10 days.
When Bhaskar reporter tried to speak to Dr Ruchita of BMHRC she said refused to comment on the issue.
Background of BMHRC
The hospital was established especially to aide 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims and carry out research on ailments caused by exposure to the Methyl isocyanate (MIC).
A Times of India report sheds light on the issue of merger of state-funded BMHRC and union-government-funded AIIMS.
The union government had promised to merge the two hospitals but it has still not been done. There are three public interest litigations filed for “proper medical care” in the hospital.
One of the petitioners Rachna Dhingra of Bhopal Group for Information & Action (BGIA) said the government was giving false assurances of a merger.
“AIIMS was created through Parliament and was funded directly by the Union government while the BMHRC was under the control of Department of Health and Research and their merger seemed highly unlikely,” she told Times of India.
A February report in TOI also points to the shortage of doctors in the hospital.