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| 5 years on, Blood Storage Unit sanctioned in CHC Billawar fails to take off | | Patients forced to flock district hospital or GMCH | |
Bijay Charak
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 21: Despite tall claims of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah that his Government assigned top priority to healthcare, the failure of Jammu and Kashmir Health department to provide basic facilities and infrastructure in primary and tertiary health institutions across Jammu province has been causing huge load on district hospitals and Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu.
The tall claims of State Government and Health Minister to provide basic infrastructure and manpower have failed to yield results as even after almost five years of sanctioning of Blood Storage Unit in Community Health Centers (CHCs), nothing has started working.
Reliable sources informed Early Times that the Blood Storage Unit (BSU) is lying defunct due to unavailability of proper infrastructure; the blood storage refrigerator was gathering dust in the corner of hospital, which was sanction in the year 2010. People of Billawar and their adjoining areas have shifted patient to district hospitals, Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu due to unavailability blood storage at CHC Billawar.
Criticizing state government sources further said that the tall claims of state government and health minister to provide basic infrastructure and manpower have failed to yield results as even after nearly five years of sanctioning of BSU's in two community health centers including CHC Basohli and CHC Bani, none has started working.
He further said that though the machinery was available in said CHC's but laying redundant, creating lot of inconvenience to patients, in dire need of blood.
While criticizing the delay in establishment of Blood Storage Units, wishing anonymity doctor working in a CHC said that there were numerous cases of delivery, accidental cases besides others in which operation was recommended by doctors, but due to absence of BSUs, all such cases have been referred to district hospital Kathua or GMC Jammu.
"Due to faulty policies of department the BSUs have not been established due to which majority of operation cases were either referred to district hospital Kathua or GMC Jammu", he said and adding that several organizations have time and again staged protest against referral system in vogue in Jammu province but administration has failed to ensure basic facilities.
A doctor at GMC Jammu said that if adequate facilities would be provided in all primary and tertiary health institutions, the workload in GMC&H would reduce and patients would also get treatment at their doorsteps.
However, repeated calls to Director Health Services Jammu Dr. Baljeet Pathania didn't pick the phone. |
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