Ludhiana, Feb. 23 -- The ayurvedic hospital at Model Gram here is struggling to keep up with surgeries due to lack of staff nurses. The staff nurses working here on deputation from the health department were called back last October due to resource crunch.

The hospital has two posts of staff nurse. It provides general surgeries for piles, fistula, fissures, pilonidal sinus, abscess, cysts, lipoma, etc., according to surgeon Dr Hemant Kumar.

Ever since the nurses were called back, the hospital hasn't been able to perform operation on women and there are problems in surgeries of male patients as well, he said.

"Women aren't comfortable with male staff. So, we cannot perform surgeries on them. Even for men, pharmacists must fill in for st...