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RAJSHAHI, Dec 24: The operation theatre of the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) has been plagued with innumerable, acute problems and is now failing to serve its purpose, sources said.
Though the number of patients has increased at least 20 times during the last 46 years, the problems of the operation theatre remained unsolved as there was no increase in the infrastructural facilities.
The sources said hundreds of patients are being deprived of proper medicare facilities due to lack of shortage of surgical equipment.
The doctors are also facing an acute problem in giving proper treatment to the patients.
The operation process of the patients of the departments of gynae and ear, nose and throat (ENT) is also being hampered for out-of-order equipment.
Besides, the air cooler and fans are out of order and there are no adequate electric bulbs. As a result, the surgeons and doctors feel disturbed during the time of operation and treatment.
According to a rule, drugs should be supplied from the hospital during operation, but a section of unscrupulous officials of the RMCH are not abiding by this rule. So the poor patients from remote, rural areas have been suffering a lot.
Doctors of the hospital said they are held responsible for delaying the operation but the fact is that for want of sufficient medicine, the operation is often delayed.
The operation theatre is in a dilapidated condition. Electric bulbs are often damaged for fluctuation of voltage of electricity. The water supply system in the operation theatre has remained broken for a long time.
Almost all machines and equipment of the department of ENT are out of order. Though an old-modelled air cooler was set up at the operation theatre, it is no more functioning.
Besides, among other equipment, punch machine, microscope, pulse oxymetre and esophogoscope have remained out of order for a long time.
There is a system of pipeline for supplying oxygen but no oxygen is supplied through the pipes.
The on-duty doctors of the ENT department said the operation theatre with faulty equipment has become a funny thing. The pulse oxymetre has been stolen from the department.
They said due to laxness of security, the cases of missing of gauge, bandage, cotton, medicine from the hospital are a regular phenomenon.
As the esophaogoscope is out of order, the treatment of the patients with bones strewn inside throat is being severely hampered.
At the first stage, such problems are solved through the insertion of forceps inside throat which is highly risky and hazardous.
A nurse of the ENT unit said they are compelled to use forceps for removing fish bone from inside the throat of a patient which may cause bleeding or other complexities.
According to the sources, as there is no fixed operation room for the ENT department, a small-sized labour room is being used as the operation theatre.
For misrule and non-cooperation of the higher authorities of the RMCH, the condition of the hospital is dilapidated, said some doctors.
They said the written complaints for repair of the faulty equipment of operation theatre have remained tapped under red tape for long.
On the other hand, equipment required for the operation theatre cannot be purchased for lack of funds.
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