ON MONDAY MORNING, Governor J B Patnaik accidentally fell on the bathroom floor at the VIP suite at the new circuit house here. He suffered a couple of fractures on his left hand and left leg, and was taken to the Assam Medical College Hospital, for treatment. At the �premier medical college�, the doctors and para medics were found wanting in providing adequate treatment to the Governor. Quite a few �senior doctors� faced the ire of the Governor�s personal staff, given the sorry state of affairs at the medical college hospital.
The Governor, a diabetic and also a blood pressure patient, was on Tuesday airlifted to New Delhi in a special IAF aircraft, for medical treatment of his fractures at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. That he bypassed Guwahati for this seemingly minor medical attention speaks volumes of the sordid state of health administration in Assam.
It is learnt that the Assam Government, under the Chief Ministership of Tarun Gogoi and his health minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, have together messed up the medical colleges in the State. While a laudable step was taken to establish three additional medical colleges at Jorhat, Barpeta and Tezpur, to complement the ones at Guwahati, Silchar and Dibrugarh, the absence of a road map in doing so has totally jinxed the existing medical colleges. A large number of doctors and nurses have been tossed around the six colleges, leading to an acute shortage of medical and para medical staff in the three older colleges, with the one at Dibrugarh having to suffer the most.
ON MONDAY MORNING, Governor J B Patnaik accidentally fell on the bathroom floor at the VIP suite at the new circuit house here. He suffered a couple of fractures on his left hand and left leg, and was taken to the Assam Medical College Hospital, for treatment. At the �premier medical college�, the doctors and para medics were found wanting in providing adequate treatment to the Governor. Quite a few �senior doctors� faced the ire of the Governor�s personal staff, given the sorry state of affairs at the medical college hospital.
The Governor, a diabetic and also a blood pressure patient, was on Tuesday airlifted to New Delhi in a special IAF aircraft, for medical treatment of his fractures at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. That he bypassed Guwahati for this seemingly minor medical attention speaks volumes of the sordid state of health administration in Assam.
It is learnt that the Assam Government, under the Chief Ministership of Tarun Gogoi and his health minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, have together messed up the medical colleges in the State. While a laudable step was taken to establish three additional medical colleges at Jorhat, Barpeta and Tezpur, to complement the ones at Guwahati, Silchar and Dibrugarh, the absence of a road map in doing so has totally jinxed the existing medical colleges. A large number of doctors and nurses have been tossed around the six colleges, leading to an acute shortage of medical and para medical staff in the three older colleges, with the one at Dibrugarh having to suffer the most.
