Absence of proper drainage facilities on GST Road and also at the GH had led to the sudden inundation
Patients being shifted out of the water logged ground floor of the Chromepet GH. (Photo: DC)
Chennai: The inpatients at Chromepet Government Hospital, here, particularly those in the maternity ward and their attendants were shocked when rainwater suddenly inundated the hospital on Monday.
This is the second time this Tambaram taluk Government Hospital on GST road in Chromepet is facing the problem of deluge during the current spell of the Northeast Monsoon.
About 35 patients in the maternity ward were shifted to the first floor and some of them were wheeled to the casualty ward.
The hospital staff made a last minute ditch efforts to save as much medicine stocked at the store room as possible before the storm water started swarming the entire hospital.
A few patients who had turned up without realising the gravity of the flood situation at the GH were asked to avail treatment at the Egmore GH. The scan room, OP ward, store room and dispensary were all flooded and hospital staff and doctors had to wade through knee-deep water.
The absence of proper drainage facilities on GST Road and also at the GH had led to the sudden inundation. Further, of the two pumps, one was in disrepair for a long time and hence made difficult all efforts to bale out the water.
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