The proposal is a brain child of Dr. Sendimeren, Medical Officer (MO) CCD, NHAK who had planned every detailed structure of the existing CCD at the hospital since it was established in 2007. Dr. Sendi, as he is popularly known in the hospital, views that cases of patients referred by doctors at district hospitals to the CCD are mostly severe in nature and therefore many lives are lost even before proper treatment is administered to these patients.
In a tête-à-tête with Sunday Post, he opined that such cases can be avoided with the introduction of tele-medicine CCDs in district hospitals where doctors at NHAK will be able to monitor such cases through tele-conferencing. This would not only ease the monetary burden of poor patients who spend extra funds for getting their patients treated at the NHAK but most importantly, reduce the risk of losing precious lives.
The M.O at NHAK’s CCD recalled how precious lives were lost before the installation of an ICU at the hospital. Sacrificing his dream to practice medicine in New South Wales, Australia and fulfilling his late father’s wish to serve the Nagas, Dr. Sendi made a solo effort to seek assistance of 4.5 crores from the North East Council to fund the construction of CCD at NHAK.
Today, CCD at NHAK is equipped with modern facilities and state-of-the-art ICU, NHAK and boasts of having the necessary life-support systems to handle fatal emergency situations. However, certain factors cloud the smooth functioning of this institution.
Out of the sixty odd staff that includes doctors, nurses, assistants and helpers, only two are government paid salaried staff and the rest are employed on contractual basis. While much effort was put in to train the nurses and staff on running the CCD, M.O CCD expressed apprehension over the insecurity of the staff in terms of job persistence.
As the CCD runs as an autonomous institution, the salaries and other expenses are met through the meager income derived from the services offered at the CCD. While the M.O expressed helplessness over the burden mounted on the patients, he felt that the if the government takes over the CCD; accommodate and regularise the staff as its own, problems of job insecurity will be removed thereby easing the burden on the common man.
Stating that if a staff leaves the CCD for a better prospect in other private institutions, it will mean going to the basics of training his/her replacement which in turn would mean a difficult ordeal. He also felt that, as duty bound for any government servant, he along with his colleagues foresee being replaced by other employees. But Dr. Sendi hoped that with the fulfillment of the much desired absorption of the department as government’s own institution, duly obliged by it by taking care of its man-power and resources, things will look brighter and the burden on the common man will be eased somewhat.
As for now, the CCD at NHAK runs at the expense of those who wish that their near and dear loved ones get the required and vital treatment even though it could mean shelling out one’s own life earned resources. But with strong political will followed with concrete positive action setting aside personal gains and differences, the only life-saving CC institution at NHAK can be a central support system if at least a two-bedded ICUs, as envisioned by Dr. Sendi at district hospitals, can become a reality.
---
Autor(en)/Author(s): K.V.Nurumi
Quelle/Source: Nagaland Post, 09.08.2012
Bitte besuchen Sie/Please visit:
