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| Platelets Apheresis machine lying defunct, GMC in deep sleep | | | K. Koushal
JAMMU, Mar 23: Government Medical College and Hospital Administration in utter disrespect of Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad's concern for carcinogens has started playing with the lives of similar patients in Jammu province as the lone Platelets Apheresis machine is lying defunct for the past over one year but the administration has not bothered for its repair.
A senior doctor shared with Early Times that the Machine is a device which receives blood removed from a donor's body and separates it into its various components, plasma, platelets, white blood cells and red blood cells, essential for cancer and dengue patients. According to sources, the administration is reluctant to call the Annual Maintenance Contract Team (AMC) for repairing the machine.
"Till 2011, the machine was working properly and later the backup system developed some problem which was later rectified", said a source adding that yet the AMC team has not reached the GMC which shows that the administration is least bothered for its repairing and higher number of carcinogenic in the state.
Pertinently Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad has shown concern over the rising number of cancer patients in the state and lack of treatment facility and had announced a cancer hospital for the state in an attempt to put this mark down. As a normal fit human being requires 1.5 lakh platelets but in case of Dengue and Cancer patients, the number may fall to 5000 and below this mark, a patient will die.
An expert said that this machine at GMC&H Jammu used to separate various components including plasma, platelets etc from the body blood whereas another machine installed at SMGS used to separate blood component from donated 350/450 cc units. Principal GMC&H Shashi Gupta when contacted by Early Times said "Come to my office tomorrow morning. I will provide you all details regarding the machine and the delayed rectification of the said machine". |
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