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| `NRHM has not made much difference' | | Health indicators | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 3: The Government of Jammu Kashmir in an advertisement published in local dailies has claimed considerable success in health indicators. One of the achievements under National Rural Health Mission is `104807 normal deliveries and 39906 C-Section deliveries'. One fails to understand as to how this can be an achievement. The women would have delivered in any case. What has National Rural Health Mission to do with it?
The Mission has, rural people in Jammu Kashmir believe, failed to bring the much needed respite to them. Notwithstanding the work done under the mission, the rural population still has to rush to SMHS, SKIMS and SMGS hospitals even for minor emergencies. Not to speak of primary health centres, the district hospitals have no blood bank facility. Most of the injured persons in Valley die due to blood loss while on way to SKIMS, SMHS and Bone & Joint Hospitals.
An international NGO wanted to sponsor ICU unit in a District Hospital. When the people from the NGO met the authorities, they said the hospital could not house the ICU unit for want of accommodation.
While the Government boasts of having appointed thousands of doctors and paramedics under the Rural Health Mission, the main hospitals in the State lack proper staff and infrastructure.
Giving reasons for increased deaths in SKIMS and GB Panth Hospital for children, a senior official preferring anonymity said shortage of doctors, paramedics and infrastructure is adversely affecting the functioning of these hospitals.
The CAG report has made a detailed mention of staff crunch in the hospitals forcing around two million people every year to go outside the State for treatment of various ailments.
According to CAG report there is acute shortage of drugs in the hospital. Even normal saline (glucose) is not available in the super specialty hospital. The patients have to purchase it from the market. |
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