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Gurgaon: Civil Hospital emergency ward's shift irks patients

Gurgaon: The entire emergency ward of the Civil Hospital has been relocated in order to renovate the entire premises of the 200-bed hospital.

While emergency services, maternity ward, NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) and out-patient wards for physicians, paediatry, dermatology and mental health are moving to the Sector 10 hospital, OPD for ENT, orthopaedics, physiotherapy and dentistry will move to a polyclinic in Sector 31.


Even though there is still a doctor in Civil Hospital to help patients in case of emergency, both doctors and patients have raised concerns over shifting different departments to different locations, as they feel services will be affected and patients will have to bear the brunt.

“Moving departments to different locations is not a good decision. Patients will have to bear the cost and time of moving from one department to another. It will also be problematic for doctors and staff. The hospital already has a shortage of staff in some departments,” said a doctor of Civil Hospital, who didn’t wish to be named.

Sushma Devi, 29, who visited the hospital on Monday, said, “I was unaware that departments have shifted. It’s not easy for me to commute everyday with my children. However, I have no option but to travel to Sector 10 hospital tomorrow, as my child is not keeping well.”

Built about 50 years ago, there were six incidents of ceiling collapse in the hospital over the past two years.

In 2015, after the ceiling of the maternity ward collapsed thrice, hospital authorities decided to move the ward to the government hospital in Sector 10 and renovate it.

Then in 2016, the ceiling of the ICU ward also collapsed, though staff and patients had a narrow escape.

As per reports of the Public Works Department (PWD), the building needs immediate repair.

In 2015 and 2017, the PWD had submitted the reports stating the entire Civil Hospital building should be brought down and rebuilt.

In 2016, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon also conducted a study on the structural condition of the hospital’s building, and came to the same conclusion.

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