The accreditation of the National
Accreditation Board for Hospitals (NABH) accorded to the Women and Children Hospital at Thycaud is at stake with
the hospital not adhering to many of the NABH standards and guidelines.
When NABH accredited hospitals are
to provide all facilities to the patients within the hospital, the patients at
the Women and Children Hospital are forced to walk out for scan, lab tests and
even for buying medicines that are not available.
The construction of the centralised
operation theatre, which was one of the facilities that was envisaged as part
of getting the NABH accreditation, is yet to start. The theatre that is now
functioning is a smaller one with only split AC whereas NABH calls for
centralised AC system.
The doctors prescribe scan outside
the hospital as there is no proper facility at the hospital, sources said. As
per the NABH norms, it is mandatory that the patients should be provided such
facility within the hospital. They also said that there was a shortage of
medicines and even certain base drugs such as ampicillin was not available at
the drug store. With no stock of the base and cheap medicines, the doctors are
forced to prescribe high priced drugs, the sources said. The doctors at the
hospital have raised complaints on drug procurement.
Source : The New Indian Express
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