There is no one to take care of indoor patients. Of the sanctioned strength of 40 paramedics, the mother and child hospital is making do with only 15, he added. On the medicine crunch, Jha insisted that most prescribed pills and ointments were available at the hospital dispensary. Oddly, at a hospital for would-be mothers and newborns, no one seemed to know when the intensive care unit or the sick newborn care unit would be made functional. Mother and baby care equipment - hydraulic operating tables, oxygen concentrator, suction machine and warmer, among others - are still in usable condition at this new hospital.

Source: The Telegraph August 21, 2017 21:26 UTC