Basic facilities elude government hospitals

Amritsar | Thursday | 14th September, 2017

Summary:

The lack of even basic facilities is visible from the unkempt patients’ wards and unusable washrooms in most of these government health centres in the city. Doors of washrooms and windows of patients’ wards are broken. It reflects apathy of the administration towards poor patients, who have no where else to goManmeet Singh GillTribune News ServiceAmritsar, September 13The lack of proper infrastructure along with insensitivity towards poor patients at government health facilities in the city is a cause of concern. Only the poor strata, who cannot afford treatment at private clinics, visit government health facilities. Patients are paying the price for the indifference of administrators of Guru Nanak Dev hospital (GNDH) associated with Government Medical College and the Employees State Insurance (ESI) Hospital..