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| Govt fails to equip district hospitals with CCAs | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 6: 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 organisations 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.
As per the data provided by government in Legislative Assembly, 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 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.
Further as per the information in Assembly, out of 2560 posts of Doctors and Para-medical staff created by the government only 602 posts have been filled.
"A total of 1383 posts (348 Doctors, 1035 para medical were advertised) in Kashmir while 1177 posts, (364 doctors and 813 para medics) were created in Jammu region but only 312 doctors and 290 para medical posts have been filled", says the data.
"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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