Pune Cantonment Board hospital refills medicine stock

Fresh stocks of oral rehydration salts (ORS) and intravenous (IV) fluids have arrived at the Pune Cantonment Board’s (PCB) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Hospital.  The management has also appointed an electrocardiogram (ECG) technician. 

The stock of ORS and IV fluids was replenished after DNA highlighted the issue in its July 16 edition ‘PCB hospital lacks stocks for basic treatment’. 

The issue assumed significance considering that ORS is the first line of treatment for patients suffering from diarrhoea and dysentery, which are common ailments in the monsoon.

Due to non-availability of ORS, poor patients who visited the PCB hospital were made to run from pillar to post for treatment. 
On Tuesday morning, when this correspondent visited the hospital, it was found that the room of the ECG technician was filled with patients. 

Moreover, patients were being provided with ORS and IV fluid. The doctor in the casualty ward had removed the note about the non-availability of these medicines. 

Sources in the hospital said that the day the DNA report was published, about 600 packets of ORS and four boxes of IV fluid arrived at the hospital.  “After the issue was highlighted in DNA, PCB officials visited the hospital and took stock of the situation,” hospital sources added. 

Dr SM Mahajan, resident medical officer of the PCB, assured that henceforth care would be taken that medicines are available at the hospital so that the patients are not put to inconvenience.

“We will be alert and I will personally check the stock of medicines. Now we have sufficient stock of ORS and IV fluid. We also filled the vacant post of the ECG technician on Tuesday,” Mahajan added.