K.R. HOSPITAL SHUTS UROLOGY DEPT. 

The K.R. Hospital here is already full of shortcomings and bottlenecks. The recent addition to its tale of woes is the closure of the Urology Department.

The Department was shut about a month ago without notice.

Patients who come with urological complaints are being sent to private hospitals by doctors themselves. Thousands of patients from far away villages, many of them being accident victims and with urological complaints, come to K.R. Hospital daily expecting cheap and good treatment.

They are greeted with a huge signboard declaring that 'qualified urologists are not available'.

No laboratory

The Hospitals does not have the requisite laboratory for urological tests. The department is devoid of required essential medicines, test kits and refrigeration system. Shunting patients to private hospitals has left them in lurch, as they are unable to bear the expensive treatment. Poor patients pledge whatever they had for getting treated in private hospitals.

Superintendent clarifies

When contacted Medical Superintendent of K.R. Hospital Dr. B.D. Sathyanarayana, said that most of the patients with such complaints were examined at the surgical block. Owing to non-availability of qualified urologists, the patients were being referred to private hospitals, he added.