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Platelets Apheresis machine lying defunct, GMC unconcerned 11/12/2014 12:06:46 AM K Koushal Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 11: The Platelets Apheresis machine which was replaced by the supplier after it remained defunct for several months in Government Medical College & Hospital Jammu (GMC&H), has now been stocked at the premier hospital and is untouched even after passage of over five months of its replacement, thus devaluing the machine. A senior doctor shared with Early Times that the Machine is a device which receives blood removed from a donor's body and separates it into its various components, plasma, platelets, white blood cells and red blood cells, essential for cancer and dengue patients. According to sources, the administration is reluctant to call the Annual Maintenance Contract Team (AMC) for repairing the machine. "Till 2011, the machine was working properly and later the backup system developed some problem which was later rectified", said a source adding that yet the AMC team has not reached the GMC which shows that the administration is least bothered for its repairing and higher number of carcinogenic in the state. When Principal GMC&H Ghanshyam Dev was contacted by Early Times over this lapse of the hospital administration, he admitted that the machine is actually lying in the hospital without any use for over five months saying- "We are facing difficulties in the procurement of blood bags. As the procurement process gets completed, we will open the machine for public use and the process will be completed within a week period". Pertinently, a former Union Minister for Health had shown concern over the rising number of cancer patients in the state and lack of treatment facility and had announced a cancer hospital for the state in an attempt to put this mark down. As a normal human being requires 1.5 lakh platelets but in case of Dengue and Cancer patients, the number may fall to 5000 and below this mark, a patient will die. An expert said that this machine at GMC&H Jammu used to separate various components including plasma, platelets etc from the body blood whereas another machine installed at SMGS used to separate blood component from donated 350/450 cc units.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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