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| Govt fails to provide Critical Care Ambulance | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 1: Even after three years, government has failed to equip District Hospitals with Critical Care Ambulances (CCA), which could provide life support system to fatally injured patients, particularly accident victims while being shifted to Government Medical Colleges (GMC) in Jammu or Srinagar.
Most of the hospitals lack ambulance facility owing to which critically injured persons have lost their lives during the past several years.
Critical Care Ambulance is equipped with ventilator and monitor who secures safe transfer of critically injured patients to other hospitals for specialized treatment.
As per the present system, there are control rooms in all the district hospitals of the state, but for shifting the patients only simple ambulances are available containing only first aid kit or oxygen cylinders. In 2010, after facing criticism from social organizations over death of several accident victims whose life could have been saved if ambulances fitted with life support equipment, government had announced procurement of 25 ambulances for which a fund of Rs 5 crore was approved.
"On the name of critical care ambulance four mobile units have been provided to the health department so far" said an insider.
As per the data provided, no critical care ambulances have been provided to any of the health institutions during the year 2011-12 and 2012-13.Rs 2.40 crore were sanctioned for Director Health Services, Jammu and Rs 2.40 crore for Srinagar after which tenders were issued but it got struck in red-tapism. So far the tenders have been cancelled ten times.
"We need many critical care ambulances here. There are times when patient needs life support but can't get it. The ambulances are not equipped with any life support system," said a senior government doctor on condition of anonymity. |
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