Lone Cardiologist of Health Services Resigns; Public urges Administration to nominate a Cardiologist instantly

John Wilbert & Rabindranath Biswas
Port Blair, Dec 13: The G B Pant Hospital of Port Blair has been operating with out a heart specialist formore than two weeks because the lone Specialist Cardiologist Dr. Srikanth has reportedly resigned from Directorate of Health Services.

According to info, the Specialist Cardiologist had resigned on thirtieth Nov 2022, which in flip rendered closure of the operation theatre of the center sufferers within the hospital.

The GB Pant Hospital is now dealing with a severe problem to offer service to the sufferers with cardiac complaints. On one hand Islanders are demanding an enough provide of extremely educated cardiologists to assist ship state-of-the-art care to a rising variety of cardiac sufferers in Andaman and however the lone Cardiologist of DHS has resigned.

In truth, the lone referral hospital in A & N Islands had been struggling owing to the absence of a heart specialist for a very long time. After a niche of 1 and half years, Dr. Srikanth joined GB Pant Hospital final yr within the month of Nov 2021. Soon after becoming a member of, Dr. Srikanth devoted himself to serve the individuals, and inside a brief span of his tenure, he attended scores of coronary heart sufferers and rendered greatest remedy.

As per info, Dr. Srikanth carried out practically 136 operation instances of the center sufferers between 2021 Nov to Nov 2022 with excellent success and during which many operations have been very sophisticated.

Now, the resignation of Dr. Srikanth got here as a horrible blow to the Health Services, individuals opined.

While however, sufferers requested the Andaman and Nicobar Administration/Health Department to recruit everlasting Heart Specialists, and till it’s executed, Heart Specialists ought to be organized at the least on a weekly foundation from any Private Hospitals in mainland on MoU foundation in order that sufferers with cardiac points can proceed to get the remedy on common foundation and complex operations could be executed at Port Blair, they recommended.