Hyderabad: Three paediatricians have been appointed at the Barkas Community Centre Hospital on March 3.
This has been the impact of a story published in Deccan Chronicle on February 28, highlighting the plight of the hospital that was grossly under staffed to handle its 350-400 patients.
Barkas Community Centre Hospital had four paediatricians and one gynaecologist in the unit. But three paediatricians resigned on February 1 leaving the hospital with only one paediatrician and one gynaecologist.
With 50 to 80 children coming every day with fever, cough and other minor ailments, it was impossible for just one paediatrician to cater to so many patients, leaving the parents angry with the hospital management.
This led to a severe crisis with just two doctors to handle this category of patients. The emergency patients were being transferred to other government hospitals.
But the fresh appointment of the three doctors has brought immense relief to the hospital and to the patients and their relatives.
