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| Kupwara hospital lacks basic medicines | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
KUPWARA, Aug 19: Sub District Hospital is lacking basic medicines. Patients have to purchase the medicines like Pantoprazole and Paracetamol from the market, and authorities are in deep slumber in north Kashmir's Kupwara district. According to sources the hospital staff is asking patients who have to undergo surgeries to buy the costly medicines from the market as they lack of such medicine which should have been available there. At Kupwara hospital, an attendant with a patient, Bashir Ahmad Khanday, said that he was asked by the hospital staff to get some low cast medicines from the market. "We got the patient admitted here at the hospital after he complained of pain in his abdomen.
However, the hospital staff asked us to get these basic medicines from the market before his treatment, which is a sheer injustice with us" he said.
Early Times have learnt from sources that Pantoprazole, Paracetamol and vaccines is being supplied by Jammu and Kashmir Health Department free of cost to patients in the hospital which have been found empty while doctors have brought the matter into the notice of Directorate Health Service which assured probe into the matter.
Eyewitness said that when Doctor Khalid prescribed such vaccine to some patients at Sub-District Hospital, they were shocked to see vaccines empty.
"As we showed the empty vaccines to the Doctor, he opened the whole lot and was surprised to see all the vaccines vide batch number JPC-005 empty.
Nisar Ahmad Hajam an attendant said that Pantoprazole is used to treat stomach and throat problems related to extra stomach acid like Esophagi's, Ulcers etc but unfortunately we have to bring it from the market.
A senior official from the hospital wished not to be named told early times that only 70 percent of the requirements of the medicines are available here which is being met from supplies by the State government resulting into the shortage.
Top official from the hospital said that last month Directorate of Health Service Kashmir supplied Pantoprazole vaccines freely to different hospitals and health centers of Kupwara district. In almost all the hospitals and health centers, these vaccines have been found unfilled. He said that owing to the shortage we have no choice but to ask the patients to get the medicines from outside of the hospital and get the tests done from the market," The unfilled vaccines is government free supply and is not for sale ironically that it is not government supply but might have been procured by Block Medical Officer Sogam from open market, official said. |
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