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| Installation of ventilators in Jammu angers K Congress legislator | | Spoiling electoral chances | | Rustam
JAMMU, Feb 21: The oft-repeated charge against the Congress in Jammu province that it, likes the NC and other Kashmir-based parties, is Valley-centric is not invalid. It is well-founded. It is the Congress that enabled the Kashmiri ruling elite in the past to get more representation in the assembly, help it adopt an amendment seeking ban on delimitation of constituencies for more than three decades, subverted the Wazir Commission report and created more districts in Kashmir and gave unqualified support to the Kashmir-based parties so that they could harm the legitimate interests of the people of Jammu province. So much so, the Congress drove the state away from the national mainstream to appease the Kashmiri leadership by incorporating divisive, communal and anti-democratic Article 370 in the Indian Constitution and the nation and people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are paying through their nose since 1950 for this folly that the Congress committed to pander to communal elements in the Valley. The latest example that vindicates those in Jammu province who hold the Congress more than the National Conference and similar other Kashmir-based outfits responsible for the miserable plight was the protest lodged in the Legislative Council on February 20 by Kashmir-based Congress MLC Muhammad Muzzaffar Parrey. On Thursday, Parrey said that the "peripheral health institutions in Kashmir have got raw deal vis-à-vis installation of ventilators". He made this statement in the wake of the official response to his query about the number of ventilators installed in Jammu & Kashmir hospitals. As per the government reply, 34 ventilators were installed in various district and sub-district hospitals of Jammu province and 16 in Kashmir. It was this that irritated and angered Parrey. He was so upset over the official response to his query that he repeatedly asked: "Why this discrimination? Why this disparity?" In response Minister for Medical Education Taj Mohiuddin informed the House that ventilators just couldn't be installed in "isolation" and "there is need of proper manpower and infrastructure for their operation". "There is a need of anaesthetist and oxygen supply for operating ventilators and it is not possible to provide ventilators to peripheral health institutions," he said, and added that "ventilators are usually installed in tertiary-care health institutions".
Not satisfied with the government's reply, Parrey said: "On the one hand, the government is spending money on futile things and there is a large-scale misuse of funds in NREGA, but on the other hand, it is insensitive to vital issue". The total number of ventilators available with the various government hospitals, according to Medical Education Taj Mohiuddin, is 137.This is the attitude of the Kashmir-based Congress legislators towards Jammu. By blowing things out of proportion, these Congress leaders are only spoiling the electoral chances in Jammu province where the people are already extremely angry with the Congress party. |
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