Mangalore: State Health Minister, U T Khader paid a surprise visit to the Govt. District Wenlock Hospital and found a number of problems crying for proper solutions since a long time and met the district surgeon Rajeshwari Devi and other medical officers to find out the ailment of the 157 year old hospital itself.

The lady doctor told the minister the ceilings of the roofs of the hospital were leaking there was growth of grass and other bushes in and around the hospital premises, the bed sheet given to patients were not washed every week as there was a shortage of laundrymen on the staff of the hospital and there was also a shortage of doctors and medicines at the hospital which as many wards, hundreds of patients and a shortage of machineries needed for proper medical treatment all these years. The previous Govt. (BJP) did not care or bother to set right the short comings of a historic hospital from British days surviving till now with shortage of funds, machinery and medical personnel in its departments.

The health minister promised to start a poly clinic in every district to cater to the health needs of the patients and the people who wanted medicines and other facilities they asked for.

He ordered the hospital staff to keep the premises clean and cut of the lawns in and around the hospital buildings, to create a better and healthier picture of the 157 year district hospital that receives patients even from Kerala and districts other than D.K for medical treatment and such other services.

Khader gave importance to hygiene in every Govt. hospital, whether of men or women and asked the medical staffs to attend to every patient kindly and serve the purposes for which the district hospital was built. He disproved of the district hospital staffs sending their patients to other local private hospitals such as KMC for scanning and other medical examinations of the body of their patients.
Khader, however, silent on leaking roofs fresh sets of bed sheets a scarcity of medicines inside the Govt. district Hospital.