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Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 28: The agents of the some medical shops and private diagnostic labs have made city hospitals especially the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H), Jammu and its associated hospitals a ground to carry out their business by luring the patients under the nose of the concerned authorities.
In the absence of a system, the GMC&H Jammu and its associated hospital viz …Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh Hospital (SMGS) Hospital, Chest and Diseases Hospital, Psychiatry Disease Hospital, and Super Specility Hospital have become money minting machines for agents.
According to sources, the patients admitted in the above-said hospitals are lured by the agents of some private diagnostic centres and medical shops for getting their investigations done as soon as possible and to procure the prescribed drugs at a reasonable price. Such practice is common in the clinical departments, especially for Surgeries departments.
“The agents present in the hospital every time but they appear inside the hospitals every night to lure the attendants for procuring surgery material required to be purchased from outside the hospitals and medicines and deliver the same,” sources stated, adding they also defame the image of the government hospital by presenting the wrong images before the attendants.
Sources alleged that some cases have been reported to the respective concerned authorities for taking up necessary steps but nothing has been done due to allegedly nexus with the doctors and few officials of the management of the above said hospitals.
They further alleged that the nexus has been running for the last many years and concerned ups are aware of such practices but they prefer to remain silent on the issues. It is not difficult to control the practice which is using government hospitals for luring patients and making hospital premises a business hub and it should be prohibited in the premises of the hospitals to save the image of the hospital.
Financial Commissioner Atal Dulloo was not available for comments.
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