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Gone to the dogs
View(s):Staff and patients of General Hospital -Nagoda have complained of stray dogs roaming the hospital premises at all hours of the day and night.
Story and pix by Sarath Siriwardana.
Stray dogs freely roam the wards, clinics and passages of the hospital, resulting in the spread of germs. Patients, visitors and staff alike are in quandary as to how the problem is to be tackled.
With dogs wondering around the OPD, wards and clinics, patients question as to what would happen if someone was bitten by these strays.
Patients complain that problems associated with stray dogs is not recent. it has been growing over the years.
However, the Nagoda Hospital is not the only hospital where stray animals have become a menace and spiraled into a critical issue.
They blame inaction on the part of of Health Authorities for causing the problem escalating.
Lords of all they survey, dogs and bitches of all shapes and sizes have made the Nagoda Hospital their home
Staff, patients and visitors are left wondering when one or the other of the strays could attack them
Ensuring visitors maintain discipline?
This smiling dog seems to have taken on the role of security officer to members of the staff while visitors look on anxiously