JDWNRH’s parking story misinformed This is in response to “JDWNRH revamps its parking space” story published on May 31, 2018. The hospital’s Medical Superintendent reported that the people never used the parking space, especially at the rear side of the area. I don’t think this is true. What we can accept is, that the area never had lighting and there used to be piles of rubbish. Why? It is because the parking fee contractor felt it is hospital’s property and its duty to maintain the area while the hospital believes it’s the other way round. The unused space, which is still used as a smoking area, is vacant as ever and that portion can be converted into a planned facility. Proper planning and consultation is highly necessary and really demanded of in JDWNRH. The management has opened up one fourth […]
Parking space at JDWNRH, health worker grievance and RAA clarifies on statutory auditing
Lack of parking space at JDWNRH I on behalf of general public and as a concerned citizen, would like to draw your kind attention regarding the above subject. Our city lack parking space due to booming constructions and rapid growth of vehicle population. The government and relevant stakeholders are trying their best to de-congest the city roads by building multi-storey vehicle parks and mandatory basement car parking for private owned buildings. It is just opposite for JDWNRH management. Recently, the hospital administration awarded the contract to private firm to convert its underground parking lot with capacity to accommodate 120 cars to gym and fitness, recreation, restaurant, coffee stall and garment shop, which will be leased out . Yes, it will fetch good revenue comparing to fees collected from vehicles. But money is not everything. Public convenience needs to be given […]
JDWNRH clarifies on hospital security and safety
A series of recent articles and editorials about incidents occurring at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) have raised legitimate concerns about patient safety and quality of care in the nation’s largest hospital. We would like to share our ongoing efforts to improve care for our patients. We have already installed CCTV cameras installed in all strategic places in the hospital premises and in the BBS programme we have mentioned that more CCTV cameras would be installed to strengthen surveillance. The information on CCTV installation being held up due to budgetary constraint is wrong because we have an approved budget of Nu 2 million to set up control room and networking for CCTV for the FY 2017-2018. We have installed a total of 72 CCTV cameras in strategic locations in the hospital premises since September 2017. The statement, […]