Working Of Mata Kaushalya Hospital Disrupted By The Transfer Of Doctors In Patiala

The transferring of approximately 523 doctors has completely disrupted the functioning of the government hospital in Patiala. This hospital is very popular among the people in Patiala for the child and mother care facilities.

On one hand, Punjab government is putting stress on the institutional deliveries as well as spending large amounts of money on promotion whereas on other hand the government is transferring the eight out ten gynecologists to other parts of the state from Patiala. This issue has completely disrupted the normal working of the gynecology department of the hospital. In remaining two health experts only one of them is specialized in the gynecology whereas the other doctor is MBBS doctor.

There are hundred of the female patients which will suffer because of this chaos. According to records there are approximately twelve deliveries per day in hospital and 350 to 400 deliveries in one month. Besides these there are many women who come to this hospital for a checkup in Patiala. Last year, the number of deliveries in the year was 4300.

This government hospital was started only a few years back and according to the facilities provided if any women who get her baby delivered in this hospital were given Rs. 1000 in Patiala. Additionally, the government paid Rs. 200 as the transport charges for bringing the women to the hospital timely. In addition to this an additional amount of Rs. 700 was given to the women who belonged to the reserved categories.

However, on contrary, women are paying approximately Rs. 5000 for the normal delivery along with the Rs. 20,000 for the cesarean in private hospital in Patiala.