Bundi : Bundi Winter has knocked, but the night shelter built in the campus of the biggest A Grade hospital of the district has been locked for 5 years. The family members of the patients have to wander here and there to spend the night. The night shelter in front of the PMO office is closed and the relatives of the patients admitted in the hospital are forced to spend the night in the open. The night shelter has been adopted by an organization, hence even the hospital administration does not pay attention. Around 800-1000 patients come to the district hospital every day. These include 300 to 400 children and female patients. If we talk about other wards including maternity, child ward, surgical, medical and trauma, 80-100 patients are admitted daily. In Zanana Hospital, 25 to 30 deliveries take place every day and 8 to 10 children are admitted every day. There are two to three family members with them, which means hundreds of family members face the problem of spending the night. Due to the night shelter being closed, spiders have made webs. In 5 years, the family members of no patient have stayed in the night shelter, whereas the night shelter of the hospital has all the arrangements including beds, bedding, fans, toilets. All they have to do is clean it once and then turn it on.
This building does not come under our control, it comes under the Municipal Council. Earlier also the lock was not opened for the attendants of the patients. For the last few years, Kambal Nidhi has been working under the project and the key is also with their representative. Blankets are distributed from here to the patients for two months in winter. There is also arrangement for the family members to stay in the Red Cross building. It is meant for the family members of the patients to stay, but with the onset of winter, it is opened here in the name of blanket bank. Instead of providing accommodation facilities to the family members of the patients, arrangements are made to provide blankets to protect them from cold. Which runs only for two months during severe winter and then stops. When family members sleep outside, mobile phones and purses are stolen every day. Due to this one has to suffer financial loss also. Mahavir International Society used to operate a night shelter in the hospital.
The family members of the patient used to stay here and give blankets and quilts for two rupees, but for the last four years, Blanket Fund Project started operating here. Society’s Vice President Lokesh Sukwal said that a letter has been written to the PMO to re-operate the night shelter, if permission is received from there then the society is ready to operate. If you look for a night shelter outside the hospital, then there is a night shelter at Devpura, Lanka Gate, one and a half to two km away from the hospital. The conditions there are also bad, there are only a few beds.
Two people have to sleep on one bed. In such a situation, the relatives of the patients come back to the hospital exhausted. Day and night, relatives of admitted patients lie on the benches outside the canteen or on the floor in the hall of Zanana Hospital. People keep coming and going through them. The same conditions prevail in the district hospital premises in winter, summer or rainy season. Will start a quilt-blanket bank within a week. We will sit with the Commissioner and make a plan so that the family members of the patients get this benefit for 12 months. At present, good arrangements have been made for the families of such needy patients to stay in the night shelter at Devpura and Lanka Gate.
