Vehicles use the main road on SCB campus to commute from Mangalabag to Ranihat. Picture by Badrika Nath Das

Cuttack, Jun 24: Police are yet to regulate unrestricted flow of traffic on the SCB Medical College and Hospital campus, which is causing inconvenience to patients coming to the premier state-run hospital.

Though the cops had installed stop boards and deployed traffic constables in 2011, it has so far failed to resolve the problem as commuters still continue to use the hospital road to travel towards Ranihat and Mangalabag sides.

Earlier, the high court had ordered for stoppage of the thoroughfare on the road between the two entrance gates of the hospital connecting Mangalabag on the eastern side with Ranihat on the western side.

“There is a heavy rush on the main road on the hospital campus, which is creating problems for us in transporting patients from one department to another,” said Pravakar, an ambulance driver.

Though no four-wheeler and auto-rickshaw except those ferrying patients, doctors and medical students is allowed to move straight from one gate on the campus to the other, two-wheelers can always be found using the road leading to chaos round the clock.

A senior traffic police official said that the issue of unrestricted vehicular flow was reviewed last week while assistance of the hospital authorities had been sought to streamline vehicular movement on the campus.

“We have proposed diversion of traffic from the backside of the central ICU for vehicles coming from Mangalabag side and from behind the eye department for vehicles coming from Ranihat side,” said assistant commission of police (traffic) Rajendra Kumar Rout.

Rout said that the matter would be discussed with the hospital officials at a meeting to be held shortly. The authorities would also be asked to provide a suitable land on the campus to launch the prepaid auto-rickshaw service from SCB campus.