NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court has given six months to the AAP government to fill vacancies in the 1,241-bed Indira Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in Dwarka, noting that the deficit needed to be filled as early as possible. The HC fixed a timeframe after a status report revealed that against 1,204 sanctioned posts, 1,013 employees were available at the hospital. “The hospital in question is catering to the needs of the people in and around Dwarka and there is no other government hospital. The secretary, health and family welfare department, shall carry out a periodic review after every six months for enhancing the number of beds in the hospital and for enhancing the manpower in the hospital,” a bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad noted in a recent order. Taking note of the status report which claimed that the hospital was fully functional now, the high court disposed of a PIL, which sought to make operational the Dwarka hospital, which was under construction for eight years and was near completion. The PIL was filed by Dwarka Court Bar Association in 2021 after the deadly coronavirus had infected a large number of people in society. It had sought to direct the Delhi government to complete the construction of the hospital and also to provide all basic amenities, infrastructure, staff, and other facilities in the hospital. The HC had from time to time, passed various orders to ensure that the hospital became completely functional and the authorities had also given periodic updates . The Delhi government, in its latest status report, informed the court that 13 specialists have been posted by the department of health and family welfare and general duty medical officers have been posted against all 18 posts in the hospital. “Also, 299 nursing officers have been posted and at present as many as 1,000 patients are being given treatment in the OPD per day. As many as 1,406 patients have been given treatment under emergency services. OPD services are available in 10 specialties,” the report said. It said that indoor patient services are available in nine specialties and a dialysis unit is in existence that is functional under the Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebookTwitterInstagramKOO APPYOUTUBE
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