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| No medicine for suspected cases: Medical Superintendent | | Swine flu turns GMCH into a pigsty | | Aviansh Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 23: 'It's nothing but a pigsty,' said Rashid Ali patient who is suffering H1N1 deadly viral, after his expectation could not match up to the lethargy of Government Medical College & Hospital (GMCH), Jammu.
With fever, sore throat and a gift of panic in times of Swine flu, he rushed to the hospital and ended up recuperating on his own. Luckily, it was no swine flu. Doctors have sent his sample test to Delhi for confirmation. Test results will only be available after a weak.
'What if my condition worsens and I die?,' Rashid Ali, a faculty member of Central University of Jammu, despairingly questioned. With high fever he walked for almost two kilometres in unattended and untidy corridors of the hospital in hope to find a doctor dealing with swine flu, then for sample test and then for Tamiflu- a crucial medicine for swine flu.
With six deaths and more than 100 confirmed cases in the state, the medical fraternity seems to be in a fix and has almost given up on swine flu. 'They are treating swine flu patients like Guinea Pigs,' said Puneet, another patient at Chopra Nursing home.
Other patients also had the same depressing stories to tell. While going for sample test, he was directed to go to a room where a swine flupatient was in a critical state, uncovered and unattended. Beds, diagnostic kits and other medical equipments were all left in the open.
Another patient waited for three hours to get Tamiflu after assurance of Medical Superintendent, but to his despair he was not 'critical' enough.
According to Medical Superintendent, Tamiflu is being given to those patients who are admitted in the hospital.
'Then where do we go as it is available nowhere?' asked Puneet. He further said that medical officers and doctors were hoarding these crucial medicines so that they would make fast buck in case the situation worsens.
Since private nursing homes are charging 4500 per sample test, there is an imminent possibility of a huge financial misappropriation.
On the other hand, Commissioner Secretary Health and Medical Education ... rubbished such allegations. He said, 'there is adequate supply.' 'In times of crisis, apathy is translated into inaction and inaction can only be cured by money. Business thrives patiently and patients die economically,' said Puneet resignedly. Though the officials at GMCH don't agree to the allegations, there still remains a big question-where have all the medicines gone?
When contacted, Medical Superintendent GMC Dr Rabinder Ratan Pal disowning hospital's responsibility to provide medicine to suspected patients said, "We are providing Tamiflu (anti-flu medicine) to admitted patients" he told.
Astonishingly the reply of medical superintendent has exposed preparedness of health department to treat the deadly virus. |
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