GAYA: With the emergency and the outpatient department (OPD) closed at Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH), the relatives of patients suffering from other serious diseases are finding it very difficult to get treatment facility. In Gaya town, emergency and the OPD facilities are available only at two other hospitals – Jaiprakash Narayan (JPN) hospital and Prabhawati hospital.
At ANMMCH, only the emergency of paediatrics department is open for general patients. In paediatrics department, serious patients would be admitted in intensive care unit (ICU), neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
Abhay Kumar of Paraia block in the district said his father Ramswaroop Bhai suffered paralysis on early Monday morning. “I took him to ANMMCH, but the emergency was closed. I consulted a private medical practitioner. Although ANMMCH is the only big hospital for serious patients, there is neither a neurology department nor a