Crowd of patients in Mansa Civil Hospital.
Patients are facing serious problems due to lack of medicine and eye specialist doctors at Civil Hospital in Mansa district. People who have an eye checkup for the job have to go to Barnala. They are not having permanent deployment of a medicine specialist
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Patients reaching private hospitals
At the same time, patients have to move to private hospitals due to vacancy of the post of eye specialist. Patients Chhinda Singh, Jarnail Singh, Roop Singh and Sukhdev Singh said that due to limited availability of medicine doctors, the crowd in the hospital increases. Due to this, medicines are not available on time. Local resident Gyan Vinder Singh said that patients are facing difficulties at both Mansa and Mercury Lada.
Letter sent to SMO bid government
The hospital’s SMO Dr. Anju Kansal said that he has sent a letter to the Punjab government to fill these vacant posts. The Punjab government claims improvement in health services, but Mansa Civil Hospital’s situation is opening up these claims.