Patients, attendants at Koppal district hospital forced to get drinking water from shops

KOPPAL: Even as several parts of the state are reeling from water scarcity with the onset of the summer, patients at the district hospital here are forced to get their own drinking water.

Every day, patients and their attendants are spending hundreds of rupees to buy packaged drinking water from shops outside the hospital. It has been almost week since water supply to the hospital was disrupted.

The hospital staff seem indifferent to the issue while patients and their families are blaming the hospital administration and political leaders for the prevailing situation.