Bangalore: With just two CT scan machines for over 120 to 150 patients who pour in every day, the casualty ward of National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) has a perpetually long queue of patients. Most of them are severe trauma injuries waiting for medical attention. Being the only largest trauma centre in Bangalore, the Institute is grappling to handle the situation.
The NIMHANS casualty ward has 90 per cent of patients requiring a CT scan, resulting in greater waiting periods. One of the latest to be affected by delayed emergency treatment was Jyothi Uday. After she was brutalised at the ATM kiosk, she was brought to NIMHANS around 11 am on November 19. Her husband C Uday Kumar says the ward was too crowded when they went and that she could have lost her life waiting for the queue to move. |