Government Hospital Sweeper

Delhi Police on Friday arrested a sweeper of an ESI hospital for raping a minor girl patient within the compound.

A sweeper stepped in to help a patient deliver a baby at Sironj hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district. A severe staff shortage is hurting health care efforts in the state even as the government reduced its health spending by nearly 10%. Its a special ground report.

At a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh, people are at the mercy of untrained sweepers and rickshaw pullers - a shocking state of affairs exposed after a baby died on Tuesday, moments after being given an injection by a rickshaw puller.

Three days after the shocking story of sweepers and ward boys treating patients at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh came to light, the state government has finally swung into action. The Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) of the Babu Banarsi Das District hospital in Bulandshahr has been removed.

A video clip of a sweeper in a green shirt giving a young boy stitches at a Bulandshahr government hospital has shocked many. But apparently, the Health Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Ahmad Hasan, is not among them. The minister merely says too many emergencies at the hospital resulted in attendants doing the job of doctors.

In a hospital in one of Uttar Pradesh's most backward areas, a man in a green shirt gives a young child stitches on his leg. The "doctor" is a sweeper at this government hospital.

They are considered experts in their fields, and students in scores flock to them to glean from their vast reservoirs of knowledge. Yet, when it comes to remuneration of these honorary teachers at state-run hospitals, the government fails to match even the figures it doles out to class IV sweepers.

Thirty six years ago, Aruna, who was a nurse, was sexually assaulted by a sweeper at the same government hospital where she now lies. She cannot speak, hear or see; she is force-fed everyday.

Delhi Police on Friday arrested a sweeper of an ESI hospital for raping a minor girl patient within the compound.

A sweeper stepped in to help a patient deliver a baby at Sironj hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district. A severe staff shortage is hurting health care efforts in the state even as the government reduced its health spending by nearly 10%. Its a special ground report.

At a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh, people are at the mercy of untrained sweepers and rickshaw pullers - a shocking state of affairs exposed after a baby died on Tuesday, moments after being given an injection by a rickshaw puller.

Three days after the shocking story of sweepers and ward boys treating patients at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh came to light, the state government has finally swung into action. The Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) of the Babu Banarsi Das District hospital in Bulandshahr has been removed.

A video clip of a sweeper in a green shirt giving a young boy stitches at a Bulandshahr government hospital has shocked many. But apparently, the Health Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Ahmad Hasan, is not among them. The minister merely says too many emergencies at the hospital resulted in attendants doing the job of doctors.

In a hospital in one of Uttar Pradesh's most backward areas, a man in a green shirt gives a young child stitches on his leg. The "doctor" is a sweeper at this government hospital.

They are considered experts in their fields, and students in scores flock to them to glean from their vast reservoirs of knowledge. Yet, when it comes to remuneration of these honorary teachers at state-run hospitals, the government fails to match even the figures it doles out to class IV sweepers.

Thirty six years ago, Aruna, who was a nurse, was sexually assaulted by a sweeper at the same government hospital where she now lies. She cannot speak, hear or see; she is force-fed everyday.