Angul: Some of the staff nurses at the district headquarters hospital here allegedly went crazy while celebrating the birthday of one of their colleagues on the hospital premises Sunday night, with no remorse at all as to the difficulties the patients were deliberately made to undergo.
It was about 9pm Sunday, and the day-long hustle bustle at the district headquarters hospital here was dying down. The patients and their attendants were preparing to go to sleep. Ambulance sirens were not so frequent, and one or two patients were coming to the hospital.
All of a sudden the tranquility was breached. Sounds akin to some celebration started coming out of the Sunstroke ward. At first the patients, their attendants and visitors could not make out what the sound was about. They were left perplexed hearing this uproar they were not used to.
Out of curiosity, some moved up to the ward and then up to the male cabin where the noise was coming from and found out that the staff nurses were busy celebrating birthday of a fellow nurse. With a half cut cake on a stool being in the center, they were dancing to the tunes of Hindi songs played on their mobile phones with full volume.
Staff nurses, expected to be careful not to cause any sort of disturbance to the patients, were the noisemaker themselves. This left many of the attendants bewildered and fumed.
They observed the nurses could have made the birthday even more special by devoting extra hours for the cause of service to mankind.
Some too gave an earful to the nurses who had occupied the air conditioned cabin for as long as one and a half hours.
Sources said, fellow staff had wished the nurse on her birthday in the morning. In the evening, again they celebrated her birthday in a simpler manner. But at night, they gathered at the male cabin of the Sunstroke ward to celebrate the occasion.
Some believed that as the cabins are air conditioned and were lying vacant, they could have found no better place than the male cabin in these hot days for celebration.
When contacted, additional district medical officer (ADMO) Laxmi Narayan Bisoi pleaded his ignorance, saying he would look into it and action would be taken accordingly.
It may be mentioned here that keeping the possible cases of sun stroke in view, an air conditioned sun stroke ward has been opened at the DHH here.
PNN