Osmania General Hospital: A decaying wonderland

Telangana By Sumit Jha December 15, 2022 Read the article

As rain lashed Hyderabad city on 15 July, 2020, sewage water swamped the iconic Osmania General Hospital (OGH).

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Doctors and medical students tried to use mattresses and sandbags to stop the water from entering the building, but failed.

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Since then, the old building has fallen into disuse, even as hundreds of patients suffer in the city owing to lack of proper treatment at the hospital.

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“I am unable to do operations after admitting my patient because of the lack of availability of beds,” said Dr Vanya Jasmin, Telangana Junior Doctors Association.

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Many of the alumni also raised their voice in concern about the old building’s structure.

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An order to renovate the building issued in 2010 by the then Chief Minister K Rosaiah has remained on paper.

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OGH’s precursor, the Afzalgunj Hospital, established in 1866, practised Western medicine at a time when Unani medicine was prevalent in the region.

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After a flood destroyed the hospital in 1908, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the then Nizam of Hyderabad, set up the OGH in its place.

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The hospital used to have a bed strength of 1,400, catering to over eight lakh outpatients and 52,000 inpatients annually.

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It was a premier educational institution, with about 2,000 students of medical and paramedical courses receiving instruction at the hospital

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