Archive · 25 Sep 2026
X-Ray Breakdown Disrupts Patients at Indore Government Hospital
Two X-ray machines at a large government hospital in Indore have stopped working.
Many patients need X-rays there every day.
One machine has been broken for about eight months.
The other recently stopped because a part was damaged.
The hospital is using a smaller portable machine mainly for chest X-rays.
Its working hours have been extended into the evening.
Patients needing other kinds of X-rays must go to the hospital’s old building.
This is especially difficult for people who are elderly, disabled, or seriously ill.
The hospital plans to bring another machine from the chest ward until repairs are finished.
Both digital X-ray machines in Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital’s new OPD are out of service.
Around 200 to 250 patients undergo X-ray examinations at the hospital each day.
A portable machine is being used mainly for chest X-rays, with extended evening hours.
Patients needing other examinations are being sent to the old building, creating difficulties for elderly and seriously ill people.
Hospital officials expect one machine’s X-ray tube replacement to take 15 to 20 days and plan to shift another machine temporarily.
- Who
- Patients visiting Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital, including elderly, disabled and seriously ill people.
- What
- Both digital X-ray machines in the hospital’s new OPD have stopped functioning, disrupting examinations.
- When
- One machine has been non-functional for nearly eight months; repairs to the other may take 15 to 20 days.
- Where
- Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, particularly its new OPD.
- Why
- One machine has a faulty X-ray tube and the other has a damaged part.
- Hospital
- Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital, Indore
- Daily X-ray patients
- Approximately 200 to 250
- New OPD machines
- Two digital X-ray machines
- Old building machines
- Three operational digital machines
- Portable machine
- Used mainly for chest examinations
- Repair estimate
- 15 to 20 days for replacement of one faulty X-ray tube
- Temporary measure
- A machine from the chest ward may be shifted and operated manually