Assistant. Surgeon’s consultation room accommodating the 3 Assistant surgeons;
Office room accommodating Associate professor and Assistant professor; Library
room; Conference room-cum-class room – cum-seminar room; Reading room.
There was no Pathological laboratory and Psychological laboratory. The daily
outturn of patients in OPD varied between 200 and 300. The seating space and
the overall arrangements made at the registration desk were inadequate. The
canteen a make shift arrangement being very close to an open drain was
functioning in a very unhygienic environment.
The patient case including his/her registration number, date, name and address,
age, religion, economic status (BPL or APL), disease, informant’s name and
address was recorded manually. The Government had given its sanction for 7
data entry operators but data entry operators would be infructuous without
computer and software. The record contents of patients were kept separately in
a 4 page loose sheet. The drug dispensing unit located in the old reception/
registration room was hardly two minute walk from registration counter and MOs
rooms was managed by 3 pharmacists and one medical attendant. There was no
staff nurse.
IMH had an observation room where aggressive and violent patients were kept
and tranquilized with the help of sedatives but this room was not an integral part
of the OPD due to lack of space in OPD. Since observation room was in the
Ward, the violent and aggressive patients were not brought back to the OPD.
ECT room and recovery room were not air conditioned and modified ECT had not
been administered. There was no ECG and EEG facility due to non availability
of ECG and EEG equipment. ECG, EEG and X-ray equipment were to be
procured under the Centre of Excellence proposal. The post of EEG technician
had been filled up and the incumbent had been sent for training.
Mental Hospital (MH), Varanasi (5th July, 2010)
The Mental Hospital Varanasi had no casualty and emergency services. The daily
average turnout of mentally ill patients in the OPD had gone up from 80 to 90
in 2007 to 120 in 2010. A temporary shed had been constructed to accommodate
about 50 to 60 patients at a time but there was no proper arrangement for supply
of potable water and toilets for patients/family members accompanying them.
However, a new OPD Block was under construction.
There was no sanctioned post of a data entry operator on a regular basis and
in the absence of a data entry operator, there was no proper arrangement for
collecting, compiling and analysing the basic data pertaining to personal history,
family history, history of illness, demographic profiles of the patients. There was
no separate record room.
There was no pathological laboratory in the hospital. All blood and urine profiles
were sent to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Hospital for investigation and report.
There was no X-Ray machine even though a post of radiologist had been
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