Sanitation Staff Stitch Up Patients’ Wounds, Treat Critically-Ill In Bihar Hospital

The cases of medical negligence are on the rise in India. However, it is not just the negligence or lack of adequate medical facilities that India is struggling with. It is also lack of right doctors and nurses for patients that contribute to the poor state of healthcare in the country. The result of this is nothing less than a tragic story, as in some areas like the state of Bihar, not doctors, but janitors do doctors’ job.

Even critically ill patients are routinely treated by sanitation and other support staff in a government-run hospital in Bihar’s Madhepura district. Cleaners stitch wounds, administer life-saving injections and transfuse saline and blood into patients besides carrying out other routine work meant to be done by trained staff at the 80-bed Madhepura district hospital, about 250 kms from Patna.

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