Malegaon hospitals bursting at seams

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Malegaon: Blood-soaked bodies and limbs lay strewn all over the blast site in Malegaon where three bombs ripped through a crowded mosque killing 37 people on Thursday.

As panicked devotees rushed for their lives through a narrow gate of a mosque-cum-graveyard after the blast, there was a near-stampede crushing many people including women and children.

More than 100 people injured and Malegaon was clearly neither prepared nor equipped to handle a tragedy like this.

The N N Wadia Hospital, the only municipal hospital of Malegaon, was bursting at its seams.

.The onus of treatment has now shifted to private hospitals where several victims have already been treated and many more are still waiting.

The casualty wards have been turned into a mortuary

Doctors from Nashik and other nearby areas are volunteering and the treatment is being given free of cost.

"There are not even basic facilities. The place does not have a civil hospital," says a doctor at a private nursing home Dr Syed Farhami.

Victims’ relatives say shoddy treatment at the government hospital was what made them rush to these private nursing homes.

It’s clear sign that the government hospitals in Malegaon are ill equipped to handle this kind of mass injury situation.

So instead of treating patients all it did was to hand over the dead bodies to the relatives.

(With inputs from Toral Varia)