Staff, attenders up against it as hospital lift conks

Chennai | Saturday | 20th July, 2019

Summary:

The five-storeyed building houses departments such as Emergency, Department of Urology, Head Injury and Plastic Surgery and Orthopaedics Department. While attenders and staff climb up the stairs adjacent to the dysfunctional lift, the workers take patients up to the second floor of the adjacent building from a lift there. From the second floor, again the patient has wheeled back to the Orthopaedics and Head Injury building through a connecting way of the two buildings. From there, through Orthopaedics ward in the second floor, the patients are taken via ramp to the third to fifth floors. We have been suffering for the past one week.”Meanwhile, speaking to Express a senior doctor said, “The annual maintenance contract expired..