Govt hospital in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi prints X-rays on paper, cites fund crunch

A government hospital in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district is printing X-ray results of patients on A4 size sheets instead of films. Hospital authorities cited a shortage of funds for printing X-ray reports on paper.

People in the Kovilpatti area of Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district have claimed that a government hospital was printing X-ray results of patients on A4 sized sheets instead of films.

Patients from the neighbouring areas, mostly daily wage labourers, showed their X-ray results on A4 sized sheets, claiming that this was being done for the past several weeks.