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| Healthcare on ventilator in J&K | | Craves for 900 doctors | | Bashir Assad
JAMMU, Jan 1: The overall health scenario of Jammu and Kashmir is ailing for proper planning and management. There are 3690 health care institutions, 4 medical colleges and 11800 beds for a population of more than one crore and has only 5800 doctors and more than one thousand posts of doctors lying vacant in various categories.
According to official data there are 3690 health institutions in the state lacking proper infrastructure and management. As per the Government sources around 900 posts of doctors are lying vacant in the state.
As for the National Rural Health Mission scheme is concerned it has proved a non-starter in the state owing to the fact that medicos engaged under this scheme are reluctant to perform their duties in far flung rural areas in the state.
It is not only the shortage of infrastructure but most of the hospitals are without sufficient number of nurses and para-medical staff. It is due to this poor healthcare that there is a genuine cry regarding the faulty health care system in J&K. During recent past children in hundreds would die of measles, mumps, diarrhea and small pox. And even dozens died in Children hospitals of Srinagar for reasons known to all. The Government is resorting to politically motivated short cuts to do away with a problem that needs serious efforts and proper planning and management.
No doubt the successive Governments have constructed buildings for health centers, sub district hospitals, district hospitals and trauma hospitals all around the state but you can't call these buildings as hospitals unless you have the required man power and other facilities over there. It is no fun to keep a surgeon or a physician and a gynecologist in a peripheral hospital without other required support services.
As per the Medical Council of India (MCI) norms, there should be one nurse per seven beds, but in most of the hospitals one nurse has to attend the entire ward, which has cast its adverse affect on the patient care.
The condition of Government run hospital is already grim in Jammu and Kashmir. On an average 3,097 persons depend upon one health institution in the state as against 2,662 in 2000-01. The life expectancy of males at birth in Jammu and Kashmir is 65 against 65.8 all-India and of females is 67 against 68.1 all-India. Full immunization in the state is 62.5 percent while the national indicator is 54 percent.
In the long run it will be dangerous to overlap the two. So the two systems should run strictly under two different roofs each practicing its own method leaving the choice of treatment to the patient. At the same time we must develop a planned health care system in private sector for our affluent class. |
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