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Bihar Guard Surgery: It is said that a doctor is like God, but what if the doctor himself leaves the patient to God’s fate. In Bagaha Sub-Divisional Hospital in West Champaran district of Bihar, pickup driver Wasim Akhtar and Surendra Pasi, injured in a road accident, were brought to the hospital. Both were injured in the road accident. The doctor was busy elsewhere. So the guard was sent to the patient. It is claimed that guard Sawan Kumar, wearing gloves, treated the patient.
To find out the truth of this claim, a reporter reached the hospital. First, it was seen that the person who cuts the slips for patients in the emergency ward was absent.
To know the truth of the claim of the security guard becoming a surgeon, who should be spoken to here. Searching, they reached the emergency ward where they met the medical officer, Dr. SP Agarwal, who gave a strange explanation for making the guard a doctor.
The doctor said, staff is less but work is getting done. The guard must have gone to the OT for a minute or two.
From the door of the Deputy Superintendent of Bagaha Sub-Divisional Hospital, Ashok Kumar Tiwari, also a vague answer was received. So we searched for the security guard turned surgeon, Sawan Kumar. It was found that he is off duty now. The reporter reached the guard’s private residence. There, Sawan Kumar said that due to staff shortage, non-medical staff of the hospital have been given part-time doctor training.
If there is a staff shortage, train the guard and make him a doctor. This strange formula is not written in any rule book. They have turned the hospital’s operation theater into a drama theater. Where seriously injured patients have been left in the care of a security guard. This may seem like a case of negligence, but it is not just negligence but a serious crime.
Security guard turned ‘surgeon’, medicine assistant giving injections
This situation is not of just one hospital. Rather, in every city there are hospitals that themselves need treatment.
In the DNA test of sick hospitals, the condition of the Urban Primary Health Center in Defense Colony, Kankarbagh, Patna, the capital of Bihar, is also dilapidated. Here, the guard is not doing surgery, but the task of giving injections has been given to a ‘medicine assistant’.
The condition of this hospital is so dilapidated that it is uncertain when the building might collapse. It is possible that one day a patient comes with a stomach ache and ends up with a head injury. If that happens, there will be a huge problem. Because wound dressing has not been done here for a decade. The post of dresser has been vacant in the hospital for ten years.
The condition of Samastipur Sadar Hospital in Bihar is also the same. Here, doctors are missing from the emergency. Essential medicines are not available at the medicine counter. There is a long line in the OPD, and if a patient gets thirsty while waiting, there is not even drinking water.
Not just the hospitals of Bihar are sick, the entire system here is on a ventilator. The reasons for saying this are revealed by these figures.
The figures from the Bihar Economic Survey 2024-25 are hair-raising. The state needs 22 thousand doctors, but only 10 thousand doctors are working, meaning 56% of posts are vacant.
The CAG report presents an even more frightening picture
The WHO standard is that there should be 1 doctor for every 1000 people.
But the reality in Bihar is that there is 1 doctor for every 2,100 people.
If we consider only government hospitals, there is 1 doctor for every 30,000 people.
Speaking of specialist doctors, the need is for 1 lakh 25 thousand doctors, and there are only 1500.
Bihar’s health system is truly sick. Or rather, it is on a ventilator, which needs urgent treatment. However, it is also necessary to shed light on the situation across the country besides Bihar. The central government told Parliament that in India, there is one doctor for every
