Udaipur: Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee General Secretary and Spokesperson Pankaj Kumar Sharma on Thursday submitted a memorandum addressed to the Hon’ble Chief Minister to the Udaipur District Collector, demanding immediate improvement in the disorganized and alarming healthcare conditions at Maharana Bhupal Hospital.
In the memorandum, Sharma stated that Maharana Bhupal Hospital is the principal government hospital of southern Rajasthan, where thousands of patients from remote rural areas, as well as poor and middle-class families, arrive daily for treatment. Due to the shortage of essential medicines, diagnostic facilities, and basic infrastructure, patients are facing severe financial, physical, and mental distress. Several healthcare facilities that were previously available have either been restricted or completely discontinued.
The memorandum highlighted major issues including the shortage of essential medicines and surgical items under the Chief Minister Free Medicine Scheme, unavailability of TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition) for critically ill post-operative patients, lack of essential pain-relief medicines such as Tramadol, excessive waiting periods for sonography tests, delay in the construction of the Women’s Hospital building, absence of a separate OPD and priority counters for senior citizens, and shortage of trolleys in the emergency department.
Sharma said that due to these shortcomings, patients are being forced to seek expensive treatment at private hospitals, which is extremely difficult for poor and middle-class families. He demanded that the government ensure effective implementation of the free medicine scheme, regular supply of all essential medicines, improvement in diagnostic services, early commencement of the women’s hospital construction, special facilities for senior citizens and women, and strengthening of emergency services.
He expressed confidence that the Hon’ble Chief Minister would understand the suffering of the common people and issue necessary directions at the earliest to strengthen healthcare services at the hospital.
Several dignitaries were present during the submission of the memorandum, including Firoz Ahmed Sheikh, Kanhaiyalal Menaria, Sanjay Mandwani, Shahid Hussain, Mahendra Nath Purohit, Sajjad Khan, Hari Krishna, Moolaram Chaudhary, Om Prakash Chaudhary, among others.