HYDERABAD: Medical infrastructure issues continue to plague government hospitals in more ways than one. On Sunday, a group of pregnant women and new mothers were forced to hold their own saline bottles at Koti Maternity Hospital due to lack of IV stands. The services at a particular ward in the hospital were disrupted due to plumbing issues, and its patients were arbitrarily moved to other wards.
“My wife was admitted in the ground-floor ward. However, some leakages cropped up and all the patients were moved to the top floor. This was a new ward, which was opened for the first time. It virtually had zero facilities. For an entire day, the patients were forced to hold the saline bottles because the staff had not procured enough stands,” informed an attendant.
When patient bystanders raised the issue, they were told that the hospital was short-staffed on Sundays. To make things worse, the washrooms in the ward had no water supply. Meanwhile, hospital authorities said that the situation was eventually resolved on Monday.