After protest, 3 docs posted at Jalalabad hospital

Fazilka, May 6

A day after employees of the Jalalabad civil hospital protested the shortage of manpower, the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) on Wednesday deployed three specialist doctors and other staff at the medical facility to tend to Covid-19 patients.

All 38 patients of the district have been admitted in the 100-bed isolation centre of the hospital. The hospital operates under the under the aegis of BFUHS.

Dr Anand Gopal Singh Bawa, administrator, BFUHS, said three specialist doctors, including two anaesthetists, had been deployed. Besides, 10 nurses have also been deployed.

Bawa said 29 more nurses would be sent on Thursday to ease the workload. The hospital’s paramedical protested on Tuesday, claiming that untrained employees deployed at the isolation centre lacked the competence to tend to 38 Covid-19 patients. Civil Surgeon Dr Harchand Singh said the Health Department had been facing shortage of doctors. He feigned ignorance of the number of doctors posted in the Jalalabad hospital. — OC