Nagpur: A decade ago, the Estimates Committee of Legislators scoffed at using the words ‘Mayo is a slaughterhouse’. But since the poor cannot afford the cost of private treatment, there is no option but to get treatment at the Indira Government Medical College and Hospital (Mayo). Therefore, the State Government built a beautiful ‘surgical complex’ in the Mayo Hospital premises at a cost of Rs 77 crore. Wards were equipped with state-of-the-art facilities ranging from surgery. But due to the neglect of the administration, Mayo’s Surgical Complex has become a ‘dumping yard’ in a dilapidated condition.

The Surgery Department has the main operation theatre and intensive care unit in the ‘Surgical Complex’ at Mayo. In addition, on the first floor, there are three modular OTs for the orthopaedic department, each with a capacity of 30 beds and several wards for patient care. On the second floor, three state-of-the-art operation theatres of eye department, home ward, ear-nose-throat department were done. On the third floor, a state-of-the-art operation theatre for ear, nose and throat department and two in-patient wards of one bed each for the surgery department have been created.

This 390 bedded surgical complex including burn ward beds has separately approved Centralized Liquid Oxygen Unit to provide immediate artificial respiratory system to the patients admitted in various wards. An ‘Oxygen Leakage Detection System’ has been installed, but this complex has been completely ignored by the local administration. As a result the said complex appears to be in a dilapidated condition, the expenditure incurred on it is getting wasted.

A large number of coffins ordered here have been thrown during the Corona period. Apart from this, ‘UPS’ coffins are lying outside and in rain. Since these materials are lying here, the importance of the surgical complex is lost.The government has been continuously neglecting the development of an important hospital like Mayo for years. Due to this affair, Mayo’s ‘Surgical Complex’ is shedding tears over its plight.

It is noteworthy that Mayo was created to provide free treatment and better doctors to poor patients. The treatment is done by specialist doctors. But there is a shortage of class IV employees. A ‘Surgical Complex’ was built at a cost of Rs 77 crore with the objective of providing treatment under one roof. But due to the neglect of their cleanliness by the administration, the condition has become miserable. Mayo’s plight is visible from the entrance. Groups of beggars at the entrance have become a headache for those visiting the hospital.