The hospital does not have a generator. That surgeries are not conducted too often perhaps helps the fact that they do not have to be done in darkness.According to nurses, the staff functions without masks and gloves though the disease is infectious. According to unit-in-charge A. Sengupta, it is common for the staff to get infected.

Toilets in the hospital are overflowing and a patient in the emergency ward says that he as well as other patients were using the verandah to answer the call of nature as the toilet are too stinky and do not even have a light bulb. There is no ready drinking water in the hospital and patients' attendants have to go out of the hospital for water, nurses say.

The hospital wears a deserted look all the time, and after noon itlooks absolutely abandoned. Rounds by the doctors are reportedly a mere formality and they rely heavily on the nurses for updates on patients.

Sengupta says that there is lethargy among some doctors as is the case in any hospital. But otherwise they were managing the show despite the lack of facilities, which he blames on shortage of funds.

He says that there is only enough money to buy food and medicine for the patients. He says that on one occasion he had to foot a bill to repair a hospital device because the technicians refused to do the work on credit. He says that while the High Court has sent notices to the hospital after the death of a patient Ved Prakash, there were many people who have been saved by personalised efforts of the hospital.