Brokers make merry as SCB grapples with information scarcity

By Express News Service

CUTTACK: The scarcity of guides at SCB Medical College and Hospital has emboldened brokers who divert sufferers from the premier authorities healthcare facility of the State to totally different non-public hospitals. Around 7,000 sufferers go to the hospital’s OPD every day. The hospital, which has 2,052 indoor beds in 34 departments, is unfold over 85 acres. In a bid to assist sufferers who come to the hospital for therapy, the State authorities began hiring guides and two posts have been created again in 1961.

Sources mentioned, initially, Dhruba Charan Sarangi and Swarnalata Das have been appointed as guides on the hospital. After their retirement, Dhaneswar Nayak and Henabal Behera got the accountability in 1993. After Nayak’s loss of life and Behera’s superannuation, two girls have been posted as guides on the hospital. However, as an alternative of guiding sufferers to acceptable departments, the 2 have been posted on the Superintendent’s workplace for the previous couple of years.

Though location maps have been put close to the 2 gates of the hospital, they don’t seem to be sufficient to information the sufferers who go to the power from totally different elements of the State. In such a state of affairs, a lot of sufferers fall prey to brokers who lure them into availing themselves of therapy at non-public hospitals and clinics with the promise that the therapy there will probably be cheaper than SCB. Once a affected person is admitted to a personal hospital, the dealer will get his/her fee and the sufferers are then fleeced with exorbitant payments.

Over 50 brokers and middlemen have been arrested from the hospital within the final yr. What’s worrying is that a number of of them have been discovered working within the hospital on an outsourcing foundation. SCB administrative officer Dr Abinash Rout who didn’t touch upon the engagement of guides on the Superintendent’s workplace, nonetheless, mentioned the difficulty will probably be resolved quickly after the engagement of Swasthya Mitras and the implementation of the Odisha Nirmal Scheme.

CUTTACK: The scarcity of guides at SCB Medical College and Hospital has emboldened brokers who divert sufferers from the premier authorities healthcare facility of the State to totally different non-public hospitals. Around 7,000 sufferers go to the hospital’s OPD every day. The hospital, which has 2,052 indoor beds in 34 departments, is unfold over 85 acres. In a bid to assist sufferers who come to the hospital for therapy, the State authorities began hiring guides and two posts have been created again in 1961.

Sources mentioned, initially, Dhruba Charan Sarangi and Swarnalata Das have been appointed as guides on the hospital. After their retirement, Dhaneswar Nayak and Henabal Behera got the accountability in 1993. After Nayak’s loss of life and Behera’s superannuation, two girls have been posted as guides on the hospital. However, as an alternative of guiding sufferers to acceptable departments, the 2 have been posted on the Superintendent’s workplace for the previous couple of years.

Though location maps have been put close to the 2 gates of the hospital, they don’t seem to be sufficient to information the sufferers who go to the power from totally different elements of the State. In such a state of affairs, a lot of sufferers fall prey to brokers who lure them into availing themselves of therapy at non-public hospitals and clinics with the promise that the therapy there will probably be cheaper than SCB. Once a affected person is admitted to a personal hospital, the dealer will get his/her fee and the sufferers are then fleeced with exorbitant payments.

Over 50 brokers and middlemen have been arrested from the hospital within the final yr. What’s worrying is that a number of of them have been discovered working within the hospital on an outsourcing foundation. SCB administrative officer Dr Abinash Rout who didn’t touch upon the engagement of guides on the Superintendent’s workplace, nonetheless, mentioned the difficulty will probably be resolved quickly after the engagement of Swasthya Mitras and the implementation of the Odisha Nirmal Scheme.