| On World AIDS Day, GMC docs ignore patients, attend Minister | | | Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 1: World AIDS Day was celebrated in Government Medical College (GMC) and Hospital Jammu by ignoring the ailing patients, as all the doctors had assembled in the auditorium of GMC hospital to appease the Minister for Health and Medical Education thereby abdicating their basic responsibility of providing health care to the needy.
Ironically, when the Health Minister was presiding over the function organized by AIDS awareness society, an unattended patient who was lying in-front of emergency and the doctors were busy in the attendance of the Minister.
"The patient who was admitted in the hospital some days ago was lying in unhygienic condition, " Sources claimed, adding that there were numbers of NGOs working in GMC, but none was available to help the patient. Social workers who were especially deputed in the hospital for unattended patients did not come forward to attend this patient. Significantly, it is not the first instance of such gross negligence on the part of the hospital authorities, they claimed.
Carelessly parked vehicles of Minister’s cavalcade and doctors, besides guests and visitors created mess in the hospital parking and crucial drive way of the Emergency as it was all chocked, leaving no scope for an ambulance to drive in with the patient. |
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