KORAPUT, APRIL 21: Shortage of doctors and nurses have hit healthcare services at the sub-divisional hospital of Jeypore in this district.
According to hospital sources, the work is being managed by a skeletal staff, including doctors.
There are only four specialists against the sanctioned strength of 15, officials said.
While posts in orthopaedic, anaesthesia, medicine, ENT, skin, surgery and paediatric departments are lying vacant, there are only 16 nurses against the requirement of 30, they said.
People of five blocks and two municipal areas depend on this hospital. It receives around 250 patients daily. Besides doctors, the hospital does not have adequate facilities such as toilets.
Sub-divisional Medical Officer (Jeypore) D B Tripathy admitted to the shortage of doctors in the hospital.
