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Ranchi, Nov 14: As Jharkhand completes 22 years as a state after separation from Bihar in 2000, the former HOD of the Orthopaedics department at RIMS Dr LB Majhi said that even though the state-run super-speciality hospital has seen many upgrades, it is lagging in terms of technology and other factors.
Talking to Lagatar24.com, the former HOD said that he has spent more than 27 years of his life working and teaching the medical students of RIMS, formerly known as RMCH. During his tenure, he has seen and worked on various severe injuries and said that treating a patient at times is difficult due to the lack of different upgraded techs.
“Operations such as knee transplant and spine surgery are taking place at the moment in the hospital but facilities such as robotics surgery are still missing, which should have started around 12 years ago. These are not big things but it definitely saves time for us and the patient,” he said.
He added that the doctors in RIMS should make it a priority to treat patients with general injuries such as bone fractures and others as soon as possible. He said that often a patient with a fractured hand/leg has to wait for days to get operated and such things should not occur.
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Apart from orthopaedics, departments such as Cardiology and Nephrology still do not have facilities for heart transplants and kidney transplants even after so many years. Patients suffering from heart and kidney problems are forced to opt for private hospitals that charge high fees for such operations.
The HOD of the Cardiology department Dr Vineet Mahajan also shared his views and experience working for RIMS and said that it has been a bittersweet experience.
In a recent incident, Dr Mahajan wrote a letter to the medical superintendent of RIMS complaining about the lack of nursing staff in the ICU where post-operative patients are kept.
In the letter, he mentioned that “there is no nursing staff in CTVS ICU and second-year GNM nursing students are posted in ICU for evening and night shifts. Currently, there are two patients on ventilator support and a total of four patients in immediate post-operative care.”
The lack of nursing staff has been an issue for RIMS for quite some time now. The president of the RIMS Nurses Association, Rekha Rai, in an earlier interview with lagatar24.com, said that the nurse-patient ratio is very poor in the hospital where in the Neurosurgery ward, there are only four nurses to take care of the 150 patients.
In a more recent incident, it was found that basic amenities of first aid such as cotton and other things were missing from general wards.
