ENT patients, attendants get to sit at PGI OPD

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 17

After Chandigarh Tribune highlighted the plight of patients and their attendants at the ENT OPD, the PGI authorities have started allowing them to occupy seats outside doctors’ rooms.

Earlier, patients and their attendants were made to stand outside the department because doctors could not bear the noise caused by them. In these columns, it was highlighted that while chairs remained vacant, people were made to stand or sit on floor outside the department.

With people forced to crowd outside the department till their names are called out, it had led to blocking of the corridor, causing inconvenience and hindrance to movement of others. OPD staff used loudspeaker to call out patients waiting outside the department.

Today, a large crowd was seen inside the department and there was no loudspeaker at the OPD.