New Delhi: CT scan machines at GB Pant Hospital, known for the treatment of cardiology and neurological diseases in the national capital, have been malfunctioning for almost 10 months, due to which patients are facing problems.
Critical patients are being referred to the nearby LNJP hospital, where they have to wait for hours for tests that take just five minutes.
A relative of a patient, requesting anonymity, said his father was referred to GB Pant Hospital from GTB hospitals in Hedgewar and East Delhi after suffering a heart attack on April 1. After initial treatment, he was asked to undergo a CT scan. ,
“Since the hospital machines were out of order, I was asked to take my father to the nearby LNJP hospital.We were asked to get the CT scan done at 1 pm but the LNJP hospital staff asked us to come at 4 pm. Such a long time can prove fatal for an emergency patient,” he said.
A woman who took her 62-year-old mother to the hospital after she had a heart attack said, "I am taking my mother to the hospital after she had a heart attack. She was brought to the 'emergency' department on March 21. " o Hospital, where after giving first aid, he was immediately asked to undergo CT scan.“We were told that both the CT scan machines in the hospital are out of order. We were asked to take the patient to the nearest hospital. But since it would have taken too much time, I got my mother's CT scan done at a private center located in the Model Town area, which cost us Rs 18,500,” she said.
In the entire GB Pant Hospital, only 'A' and 'D' blocks have CT scan machines and that too has been out of order for about 10 months.
Dr. Kalpana Bansal, Associate Professor of Radiology Department at GB Pan Hospital, said that one machine is not working since last February-March.He said that the process of purchasing a new machine in place of the second machine which was lying idle since June last year is almost complete and the machine is likely to be brought to the hospital by July-August.
A senior official of the Radiology Department confirmed this and said on the condition of anonymity that due to repeated cancellation of the tender for the second machine, there is a delay in its purchase.
A senior official of the technical department of LNJP Hospital said that on normal days, the number of patients coming to the hospital for CT scan is 125 to 130 every day, which sometimes even crosses 200. He said, the number of patients in GB Pant Hospital is around 40, which sometimes reaches 60.
Sources said that in LNJP Hospital also only one of the two CT SCA machines is working. On the condition of anonymity, an official said that for the last four months, about 1500 patients are coming here every month from GB Pant Hospital for CT scan.
He said that CT scan of patients admitted in the wards of LNJ Hospital, patients coming from GB Pant Hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital as well as prisoners is also done here.
An official at GB Pant Hospital said that both these machines, which were brought to the hospital in 2011, are now quite old and parts are difficult to get.Their parts are also a bit expensive, so a new machine has been ordered.
He said that the machine imported from Germany would be installed in the hospital by August.
On the issue of problems faced by patients, he said, 'We have been managing somehow for the last few months and are trying our best to ensure that patients do not face any kind of problem.'
In response to a question regarding emergency patients and their CT scan, D Amit Srivastava, director and senior consultant (neurology), Delhi's Dharamsheel Narayan Super Specialty Hospital, said a brain stroke patient should be brought to the hospital as soon as possible. , After that the CT scan takes only five minutes.
Critical patients are being referred to the nearby LNJP hospital, where they have to wait for hours for tests that take just five minutes.
A relative of a patient, requesting anonymity, said his father was referred to GB Pant Hospital from GTB hospitals in Hedgewar and East Delhi after suffering a heart attack on April 1. After initial treatment, he was asked to undergo a CT scan. ,
“Since the hospital machines were out of order, I was asked to take my father to the nearby LNJP hospital.We were asked to get the CT scan done at 1 pm but the LNJP hospital staff asked us to come at 4 pm. Such a long time can prove fatal for an emergency patient,” he said.
A woman who took her 62-year-old mother to the hospital after she had a heart attack said, "I am taking my mother to the hospital after she had a heart attack. She was brought to the 'emergency' department on March 21. " o Hospital, where after giving first aid, he was immediately asked to undergo CT scan.“We were told that both the CT scan machines in the hospital are out of order. We were asked to take the patient to the nearest hospital. But since it would have taken too much time, I got my mother's CT scan done at a private center located in the Model Town area, which cost us Rs 18,500,” she said.
In the entire GB Pant Hospital, only 'A' and 'D' blocks have CT scan machines and that too has been out of order for about 10 months.
Dr. Kalpana Bansal, Associate Professor of Radiology Department at GB Pan Hospital, said that one machine is not working since last February-March.He said that the process of purchasing a new machine in place of the second machine which was lying idle since June last year is almost complete and the machine is likely to be brought to the hospital by July-August.
A senior official of the Radiology Department confirmed this and said on the condition of anonymity that due to repeated cancellation of the tender for the second machine, there is a delay in its purchase.
A senior official of the technical department of LNJP Hospital said that on normal days, the number of patients coming to the hospital for CT scan is 125 to 130 every day, which sometimes even crosses 200. He said, the number of patients in GB Pant Hospital is around 40, which sometimes reaches 60.
Sources said that in LNJP Hospital also only one of the two CT SCA machines is working. On the condition of anonymity, an official said that for the last four months, about 1500 patients are coming here every month from GB Pant Hospital for CT scan.
He said that CT scan of patients admitted in the wards of LNJ Hospital, patients coming from GB Pant Hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital as well as prisoners is also done here.
An official at GB Pant Hospital said that both these machines, which were brought to the hospital in 2011, are now quite old and parts are difficult to get.Their parts are also a bit expensive, so a new machine has been ordered.
He said that the machine imported from Germany would be installed in the hospital by August.
On the issue of problems faced by patients, he said, 'We have been managing somehow for the last few months and are trying our best to ensure that patients do not face any kind of problem.'
In response to a question regarding emergency patients and their CT scan, D Amit Srivastava, director and senior consultant (neurology), Delhi's Dharamsheel Narayan Super Specialty Hospital, said a brain stroke patient should be brought to the hospital as soon as possible. , After that the CT scan takes only five minutes.
