Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh Hospital patients to get medicines on bed

JAIPUR: City’s Sawai Man Singh Hospital, competing with private and corporate hospitals, has started providing medicines to patients on their beds. The hospital begun the facility at the day care ward for cancer patients on Monday.
Attendants of the patients will not have to arrange medicines, which now be provided by the nurses and other healthcare staff posted at the day care ward.
It is a move taken to benefit patients especially those who do not have attendants and they come for treatment alone. “The facility has been initiated to benefit all the patients but it will help those patients immensely who come for treatment without any attendant. Most of the patients are underprivileged and those also who are disowned by their families,” Dr DS Meena, medical superintendent, SMS Hospital told TOI.
The hospital administration officials have seen that increasing number of patients coming to hospital without any attendants, which is a major cause of concern. With the help of dedicated staff and who is willing to serve the patients with more care, the hospital administration took step to make the medicines available at the beds.