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Gandhi Hospital, one of the largest government hospitals in Secunderabad, is supposed to serve the common people with affordable healthcare. However, the ground reality is completely different. Patients and their families face rude staff, unhygienic conditions, lack of basic facilities, and a total lack of accountability from the hospital management.
Here are some serious issues that patients and their attendants encounter at Gandhi Hospital:
1. Extremely Rude Behavior of Hospital Staff and Nurses
Patients and their families are spoken to in an arrogant and disrespectful manner.
If you ask a nurse or staff member for help, they either ignore you or respond rudely.
If a nurse gives you proper information, consider yourself lucky—because most do not even bother.
Nurses refuse to leave their seats to attend to patients.
Ward boys and nurses act like they are doing a big favor by simply answering questions.
2. Horrible Hygiene and Infrastructure Neglect
Wards are in an extremely poor condition, filled with dirt, mosquitoes, and broken furniture.
Windows are broken, making the place unsafe and unhygienic.
No proper drinking water facility—patients and their families struggle to find clean drinking water.
Washrooms are so dirty and unhygienic that if a healthy person enters, they might fall sick.
No maintenance of toilets, foul smells, and lack of cleanliness make the hospital environment unbearable.
3. Lack of Help from Ward Boys and Hospital Staff
Ward boys refuse to assist patients and their attendants.
If you ask for help, they either ignore you or demand money for basic assistance.
Nurses sit on their seats scrolling through their mobile phones, rather than attending to patients.
4. Gross Violation of Female Patient Privacy
It has been observed that male ward boys are changing the clothes of female patients.
Female nurses are present but do not do their duty, instead, they sit and watch.
This complete lack of concern for patient dignity is unacceptable and requires immediate action.
5. No Navigation and Signboards for Directions
No proper navigation signs for staircases, departments, or wards.
If you are new to the hospital, you will struggle to find your way around.
No staff is available to guide patients to the right departments on many floors.
6. Non-Functional Lifts and No Liftmen
Lifts do not have any attendants, making it difficult for elderly and disabled patients to use them.
Frequent lift malfunctions, creating unnecessary delays for patients in emergency situations.
The Urgent Need for Government Action
Gandhi Hospital is a government-funded institution, but the level of negligence, mismanagement, and corruption is appalling. The Telangana government must take strict action to:
✅ Ensure respectful and responsible behavior from nurses and staff.
✅ Suspend staff who mistreat patients.
✅ Improve hygiene and maintain clean wards, washrooms, and drinking water facilities.
✅ Hire lift operators and provide proper navigation signboards.
✅ Ensure female patients’ privacy is respected, and male staff are not allowed to handle female patients unnecessarily.
The current condition of Gandhi Hospital is unacceptable, and urgent reforms are needed to provide proper and dignified healthcare to the people of Hyderabad. The government must wake up and take responsibility before things worsen further.
