Power trips, Mohali hospital comes to grinding halt

MOHALI: Ashok Kumar, a resident of Balongi, had brought his wife to Civil Hospital, Mohali on Monday morning, little realizing that the hospital would have no back up for the power breakdown.
"I got the shock of my life when I noticed that there was no power supply in the hospital emergency ward and the nurse started preparing for delivery in the ambulance itself, but this too looked difficult with no proper facilities.Finally, I decided to take my wife to the Government Multi-speciality Hospital, Sector 16, Chandigarh, where doctors said it would have been difficult to save the baby had we got a bit late," he said.
Patients admitted in the hospital too felt suffocated without fans and lights. The Civil Hospital, Mohali, remained non-functional due to lack of fuel in the generator, at the time when entire North India was suffering with power failure, which led to inconvenience to a large number of patients.
After waiting for long hours, a large number of patients came out in the parking area of the hospital to get some relief when they found that the hospital authorities were reluctant to help them out.
Kulwinder Singh of Raipur, said, "My kid had been operated upon and was not able to bear the heat and the hospital had made no arrangements for such an emergency situation." "My husband had severe pain in his leg, but the staff on duty could not do anything as there was no electricity. They couldn't even find medicines" said Parminder Kaur, a resident of Phase 1 Mohali.