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Miteord Hospital

Emergency section that gives first aid only!

Durdana Ghias
A small passage on the ground floor of Mitford Hospital is crammed with scores of people scrambling for going in and coming out. Some are carrying serious patients. This is the entry to the hospital's emergency section.
Alek, a patient with injuries from Nolgola area was being carried to the male observation room. The only doctor, emergency medical officer (EMO), was to check the seriousness of his injury. But he was seen struggling to reach him because of the huge crowd of relatives of the patients.
Doctors find it extremely difficult to attend to the emergency patients due to the narrow space and the crowd.
Every day over 250 patients come to this section for treatment. For people living in old Dhaka, Keraniganj and the southern part of the city this is the only public hospital. Although the emergency section has been moved from the hospital's old rickety structure, its basic facilities hardly improved.
The patients receive basically first aid at this section. Those coming with cuts, bruises and bleeding are taken to the dressing room. "We have no problem. We are giving first aid here,'' said a nurse matter-of-factly.
"If the injury of a patient can be treated with one or two stitches then we treat it here. We have all the equipment to provide first aid at this section. But if a patient's condition is too bad, then he is transferred to the respective ward as an indoor patient,” the doctor said.
According to him, the emergency section has no problem as the interns and nurses of this section are skilled enough to provide first aid.
The small section consists of several small and medium sized rooms including three small observation rooms with 10 beds, one dressing room, one washroom, one EMO’s room and one nurses'duty room.
There are three trolleys in the section. The only gadget the section has is the steel container used for boiling scissors.
The washroom, where patients who take poison are treated, has a trolley and a table and no equipment for stomach wash. The section does not have any operation theatre for the last two decades.
"If any accident takes place in the nearby roads we do not have the facilities to attend them," said the EMO. The faulty oxygen supply line that has been restored a few days ago exists only in the male observation room of the section. Doctors use oxygen cylinder at the female observation room.
The section has water supply line but this correspondent found two faulty taps releasing waler incessantly without least concern among the staffs.
"One problem is when a patient comes here he is accompanied by ten relatives. So the section remains crowded all the time," said a nurse.
Abdul Halim, a patient from Ruhitpur, Keraniganj, was sitting outside the emergency with his head wrapped in a bandage.
" My wife and I were beaten up by our rivals in a land dispute this morning. I came here
because this is the only big hospital dose to my place," said Halim. "I bought three injections, cotton and the medicine from outside."
Halim had however no complaint against the emergency section since all he needed was first aid and he had the money to buy the injections and medicine unlike many patients.
Asked, Dr Md Sohrab Hossain, deputy director, Mitford Hospital, said the EMO can say better about the condition of the emergency section.
Asked about the operation theatre facilities he said, "Emergency does not need operation that much. If anyone needs operation then he is taken to the casualty section beside the emergency."