CHANDIGARH: The condition of toilets in major government hospitals such as the PGI and GMSH, Sector 16, is so sickening that attendants are worried about infections to the patients.
Patients and their attending relatives keep complaining about stinking washrooms and asking for mobile toilets at certain places. When a TOI team surveyed the hospitals, sanitation workers said they did clean the toilets but the users didn't treat them well. A sweeper said: "Are we supposed to remain in the toilet and clean it after every use, while visitors continue to spit on the walls and sully the toilets?"
Rakesh Kumar, who was attending on a relative admitted to Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH), said: "The hospital's toilets are filthy and stinking. Considering that all visitors use these washrooms, the maintenance officials should keep these clean. Sanitation workers need to pay more attention."
An official spokesperson of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) said: "We do our job to the best of our ability. We have cleanliness supervisors but the huge rush of patients brings in more trash, and our workers keep trying to clean it. Some visitors are bad toilet users. They deface public property."
Some of the visitor interviewed by TOI said unusable toilets forced them to urinate and defecate in the open. They cannot enter those stinking toilets.