Which corporate hospital in Hyderabad has the best Facebook Cover image? “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead Most of you thought it is Apollo Health City's Facebook cover image but it's not. Surprised? Read on. Though Apollo Health City Facebook page has 65k followers, using a generic campaign creative on its cardiac treatment expertise looks vague. My feeling is that either a patient or a star heart transplant surgeon should have been at the heart of the cover image. In case of the latter, my bet is on Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale, Cardio Thoracic Surgeon, who could have been featured instead but the management may be wary of a doctor becoming bigger than the hospital. This creative goes well with the violet color of Care Hospitals but the designer should have run a spell-check on November! By the way, lung cancer being the most common cancer in Indian men could be factually incorrect. It s...
Why junior doctors have become temple bells in govt medical colleges?
Hyderabad: It may continue to bask in the fake illusion of being the oldest and the largest state run medical college in Telangana but Osmania Medical College (OMC) is a scene of neglect when it comes to providing protection to meritorious medicos from vandals and anti-social elements.
The Bangaru Telangana does not even have fake gold polish it may seem as the unfortunate attacks on three medicos including first-year postgraduate medical student Dr Raja Ramesh and two other female house surgeons in OMC's Intensive Medical Care Unit (IMCU) happened Sunday night despite special protection force (SPF) personnel being stationed a stone's throw away.
So badly was Dr Raja Ramesh beaten that the irate attendants fractured his left hand after the death of an elderly woman in their family while undergoing treatment.
"What is the use of SPF personnel when junior doctors continue to get thrashed in top state run medical college," asked Telangana Junior Doctors' Association (TJUDA) advisor Dr G Srinivas in the midst of slogans demanding justice.
Why they are vulnerable?
While junior doctors have decided to boycott all elective services at the hospital, the lethargic system has made them vulnerable for such attacks in government medical colleges as it is very easy for anyone to thrash a junior doctor just like one rings the temple bell!
Reason: There are four SPF personnel allotted to OGH but they are stationed only at casualty unit, leaving junior doctors vulnerable in all the nine Intensive Care Units.
Not surprisingly, their absence at IMCU on Sunday night emboldened the patient's attendants to direct their ire against the three medicos.
The story does not end here as it now appears that the police are still clueless about the identity of the attackers as there was no CCTV footage of the incident. There can be CCTV footage only when they are installed in the first place but nobody knows why they were not procured with Rs 100 crore granted to the hospital in Telangana's maiden budget in 2014.
For a hospital of OMC's standard, the government must not only install CCTV cameras in all ICUs but also provide an emergency alarm mechanism for medicos so that the SPF personnel can react on time, instead of reaching the site late after the crime has been committed.
"The government must ensure that all ICUs have all necessary infrastructure in place as many a times, the patient's attendants get provoked when they learn that a particular system is not working or is not there. For instance, the IMCU lacked enough number of BP apparatus, while oxygen supply system and ventilators too required attention," added Dr Srinivas.
What's ironic is that by the time the problem is sorted out, hundreds of hapless patients might have suffered untold hardships with the flash strike by medicos.
But this is inevitable if one goes by Newton's third law of motion.
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