The rodent menace has reportedly disrupted medical facilities at a Kanpur hospital. Not a few but various pieces of equipment at the hospital were destroyed by rats.
This news exposes the careless attitude of the hospital authorities towards proper maintenance. If the rats enter the precincts of the X-ray Room, there appears apparent failure of the upkeep.
According to the news reports, rats at Ursula Hospital in Kanpur have made an essential tool malfunction in a digital X-ray machine.
This costly equipment has been stated to cost nearly a big amount of Rs 25 lakh. Despite the heavy cost of the machine the repellants for removing them seem to be not used, as patients' relatives were found explaining.
Undeniably, this defunct rat-bitten machine resulted in poor patients and their yawning relatives confronting serious difficulties in gaining proper and needful medication facilities at the city's very old hospital.
Though the hospital authorities reached out to a maintenance company to address the issue, the rat menace could not be repaired reportedly. The hospital authorities to save it's position were managing patients with just one X-ray machine. Even though the digital X-ray machine checks up on over two hundred patients daily, the care and upkeep came under laxity.
The director of the hospital said they had faced similar challenges in the past when rats had damaged other medical equipment. Precautionary measures, like installing mesh near windows and doors, were being executed to deal with the losses due to the rodent menace.
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