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Bir sanitation in sorry state
KATHMANDU, MAY 20 -
Despite being equipped with almost every medical facility, Bir Hospital, the country’s oldest and the most affordable one for the general public, is in ill health as regards sanitation on its premises.
Toilets in the hospital are in a pitiable state, no wonder pungent odour is smelt yards away from the popular treatment centre. Broken toilet pans, taps that leak and soiled walls speak volumes of the hygienic condition of the most-accessible public hospital for Valley denizens.
Ankit Shrestha, a patient admitted in the hospital for weeks said the drainage system was inefficient. “Solid and liquid waste gets blocked and overflows all over the toilet,” he complained.
The hospital is the choice of many poor and lower class people from different parts of the country. “But toilets are in such a poor state that a fit person can feel nauseated going round,” said Sita Pariyar, a patient attendant.
Women are particularly affected since many rest rooms are without latches or handles.
“Females are embarrassed at having to use them,” Pariyar said.
She complained that the hospital administration had not cared to improve the state of affairs.
Sixty-nine-year-old Dhan Bahadur Majhi said elderly patients like him find it hard to use the lavatories. “The slippery floor can ambush shaking patients like me,” said Majhi.
The hospital administration blames it on human resource crunch in the sanitation department.
Posted on: 2010-05-21 08:11
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