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Pune's Health Facilities Inadequate, 12 Hospitals Defunct Due To Lack Of StaffBy akansha, Section Health
From being the centre of the plague epidemic in the 19th century, to the recent H1N1, the city has witnessed its fair share of medical emergencies. In tandem with the changing times, healthcare facilities in the city have also seen a surge.
However, it seems, it's not enough, especially after the German Bakery blast last week, which has now raised questions on the medical response and infrastructure facilities in the city to tackle crisis, and the city's preparedness to handle the challenges.
 According to the information provided by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) the city has 2.9 hospital beds available for every 1,000 people. Ironically, the civic body has constructed twelve new hospitals which remain closed for non-availability of staff. In a written reply to corporator Prithviraj Sutar, the civic administration has stated that twelve municipal hospitals are ready with all construction, but due to the unavailability of the required staff, these hospitals have not been started yet. "As of now, the PMC has 43 units across the city, including 15 maternity hospitals, 28 dispensaries/OPDs, and major hospitals like Kamala Nehru, Naidu hospital and the new Rajiv Gandhi hospital at Yerawada. Total availability of beds in these civic hospitals is 750 and we plan to increase it upto 1,490 this year," said acting civic medical officer R R Pardeshi. Besides, a few of these dispensaries and maternity homes also house family planning centre, motherchild care centre, immunisation centre, ant-rabies vaccine centre and integrated child development centre. Source: Times Of India By Radheshyam Jadhav Pune's health facilities inadequate Click On "Full Story" For More....
R R Pardeshi admitted that twelve hospitals are not functioning because of the non-availability of staff.
"But we have already made substantial provision for the health department in the draft budget for 2010-2011. We will ensure that all the hospitals will be operationalsed this year," Pardeshi added. "The civic administration has no clear policy to run its hospitals. The Rajiv Gandhi hospital at Yerawada was constructed spending about Rs 7 crore and inaugurated in March 2007. Since then, the infrastructure is gathering dust as only primary services like maternity, child health care and immunisation are provided here. In fact, all municipal hospitals are only providing primary health services and there is a need to create super-speciality health services," said corporator and medical practitioner Siddharth Dhende. "The PMC has no clear policy to run its hospitals. The civic administration had floated tenders to hand over some of its hospitals on build-operate-transfer basis but those plans landed into controversy. We had requested the PMC to tie up with private hospitals so that citizens could get better health facilities," said corporator Ujwal Keskar. Municipal commissioner Mahesh Zagade has proposed a provision of Rs 98.88 crore for upgrading public healthcare system in the 2010-11 draft budget. Adding 690 beds at various municipal hospitals; developing Naidu hospital into a highly-sophisticated communicable disease control unit; initiating emergency medical services; implementing schemes to promote institutional deliveries to cut down on maternal and new born death rate are among the prime goals of the civic health department in 2010. Zagade, while presenting the draft budget, admitted that ideally, four per cent of the total budgetary provisions should be set aside for public health and according to the current public healthcare standard, one doctor is needed for every 5,000 people. Going by that benchmark, 280 medical officers are required to render medical services to the city's 14 lakh urban poor.
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