The game of brokering patients in JAH, the responsible silent. Symbolic picture.
Highlights
GRMC management is limited to expressing concern after the firing. After the incident, questions are also being raised on the security in the hospital premises. The patient disappears as soon as he reaches the trauma center and emergency treatment center.
Naiduniya representative, Gwalior: Patient brokers dominate Jayarogya Hospital. They are taking patients to private hospitals by deceiving them in front of doctors. The situation is such that the patient disappears as soon as he reaches the trauma center and emergency treatment center. From ambulance drivers to medical store operators and some doctors are also involved in patient brokerage, who openly take patients out of the hospital.
Despite this, the GRMC and JAH management is silent. The firing in Madhav dispensary premises on Wednesday confirms that the work of making patients disappear is going on here every day. After the firing, the GRMC management was limited to expressing concern over the incident. Not only this, after this incident, questions are also being raised on the security of the hospital, while even the Principal Secretary of the Public Health and Medical Education Department has written a letter to the GRMC management regarding the security of the hospital.
Despite this, security arrangements have not been made in the hospital till now. Doctors have also been beaten up: Anyone who creates hindrance in the brokers’ brokerage is beaten up. In the year 2022, Dr. Aditya Tiwari was even beaten up in the casualty of Madhav Dispensary. 10 to 15 goons had come here. They even snatched away the government papers.
The Dean expressed concern
Taking cognizance of the incident of firing by anti-social elements in the Trauma Center due to mutual conflict, GRMC Dean Dr. RKS Dhakad wrote a letter to the Superintendent of Police expressing concern over the incident in the hospital. Apart from this, Joint Director and Superintendent Jayarogya Dr. Sudhir Saxena has been directed to strengthen the security system and remove anti-social elements from the premises. Along with this, a report of the incident has also been sought.
Brokers sitting outside at night make deals for patients
At night, the trauma ward is taken over by brokers of private hospitals who deal in patient dealing. As soon as the patient arrives in the ambulance, these brokers start following the relatives. They take the patients away by telling the relatives that they will not get treatment in government hospitals.
