Because of poor paediatric care services in authorities healthcare sector in Nanded and close by areas, most sick newborns approaching 19 totally different public hospitals – one civil hospital, six sub-district hospitals and 12 rural hospitals – are typically referred to GMC (Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College), since different hospitals lack capability to supply around the clock specialised look after newborns.

Being a specialised referral facility, the buck stops at GMC – the hospital which was on the centre of the controversy – as this medical faculty hospital cannot deny admissions, and should accommodate all incoming sufferers regardless of overcrowding and overstretching of current services, in keeping with the report ready by Jan Aarogya Abhiyan.

The well being campaigners go to to the Marathwada city for an evaluation of its public well being services comes three weeks after GMC hospital hit the information headlines following a string of deaths starting with 24 casualties between Sept 30 and Oct 1.

Nine deaths had been of aged individuals (over 65 years) whereas 11 had been neonates. Seventeen of the 24 deaths had been of sufferers who had been referred from different hospitals.

The JAA workforce visited 4 hospitals – GMC hospital, Civil hospital, Women’s hospital and Urban CHC, Nanded Waghala Municipal Corporation – and spoke to a cross-section of medical doctors, hospital directors and sufferers earlier than getting ready an evaluation report that was launched on Wednesday.

While the report underscores a number of holes within the district’s healthcare infrastructure, it additionally exhibits how flagship schemes like Ayushman Bharat-Prashan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojna have probably not labored at Nanded.

“Only two private hospitals in the entire Nanded district are enrolled under PMJAY (including MJPJAY – a scheme funded by the Maharashtra government) for providing neonatal care. This is despite the fact that there are at least 21 private paediatric hospitals in Nanded city, which are providing market-based care on payment of fees. This is yet another evidence that health schemes cannot be a substitute for health systems,” the report stated.

Over-reliance on such schemes which have patchy efficiency at greatest, can draw away treasured sources and political consideration from the general public well being system, which continues to supply much-needed providers to probably the most weak and disadvantaged sections of the inhabitants, regardless of so many imposed constraints.

The extra deaths in Nanded, consultants say, aren’t an remoted phenomenon. Rather they’re extra seen and excessive manifestations of a deepening, state-wide public well being system disaster, reflecting a closely over-stretched and under-resourced system which is now shifting near breaking level.