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| GMC's 'renovated' OT becomes pool of muck | | Lives of patients undergoing surgeries endangered | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 28: Minister for Health and Medical Education is traveling to peripheral health units to conduct raids and impose penalties on doctors and para medical staff, but the premier health institution of the region, the Government Medical College Jammu is crying for his attention right under his nose. The main operation theater of the GMC which was closed for months for renovation and has been opened recently is in deplorable condition and the pool of muck in the middle of the theatre complex is not only threatening lives of those who undergo surgeries there, but also of the doctors and the staff who undertake these surgeries.
A video sent to ET by an attendant shows pitiable condition of the 'renovated' theater where pool of muck and dirt can be seen right at the entrance besides several other places in the premises due to which, highly infectious grime is transported inside the theatre along with the shoes and slippers of the staff. The false ceiling which has been put in place as part of the renovation project has come off at several place and no one has cared to even pick it up, let alone get it re fixed. The bench kept in the waiting area is so shabby and filthy that no one can even dare to sit on it. While hospital administration spends lakhs on sanitation of the hospital every month, the main operation theater is in highly unsanitized condition, with dirty water and muck overflowing from the bathrooms and pooling up in the doctors' changing rooms where the doctors are supposed to change and wear 'sanitized' clothes so as to check infections.
Sources disclose that lakhs of rupees were spent on the renovation of the OT for which it had to be closed for two years, causing gross inconvenience to the patients, but now that it has been opened, it is in total disarray and no one is being held accountable for siphoning off public funds in the renovation project.
Medical superintendent GMCH Dr. Ravinder Rattanpal when contacted said that the issue of leakage has already been taken up with the Executive engineer of the Engineering wing and his team is on job. He however said that complaint of leakage has come from the portion other than the one that was taken up for renovation. "OT is a fairly large premises and this portion where the seepage has emerged was not part of the renovation project" he averred. Asked about the risk to the patients undergoing surgeries in such a sullied OT, he confessed that it was a hazard. |
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