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| 2 years on, Blood Storage Units sanctioned in four CHCs fail to take off | | Patients forced to flock district hospitals or GMCH | | Akshay Azad
Jammu, Aug 5: Beyond Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's recent claims that his Government assigned top priority to healthcare, the failure of Jammu and Kashmir Health department to provide basic facilities and infrastructure in primary and tertiary health institutions across Jammu province has been causing huge load on district hospitals and Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu.
The tall claims of State Government and Health Minister to provide basic infrastructure and manpower have failed to yield results as even after nearly two years of sanctioning of Blood Storage Units in four Community Health Centers (CHCs), none has started working.
According to details furnished by officials at Directorate of Health Jammu, it has been found that one each Blood Storage Units (BSU) was sanctioned in Community Health Center (CHC) Billawar, CHC Hiranagar, CHC Basohli and CHC Bani, but not a single has started working.
The documents further revealed that though the machinery was available in CHC Bani but laying redundant, creating lot of inconvenience to patients, in dire need of blood.
In case of CHC Billawar, Hiranagar and Basohli, the Blood Storage Units have not even established yet and the machinery was also not made available there due to reasons best known to authorities concerned.
While criticizing the delay in establishment of Blood Storage Units, Dr. Ashwani Sharma working in a CHC said that there were numerous cases of delivery, accidental cases besides others in which operation was recommended by doctors, but due to absence of BSUs, all such cases have been referred to district hospital Kathua or GMC Jammu.
"Due to faulty policies of department the BSUs have not been established due to which majority of operation cases were either referred to district hospital Kathua or GMC Jammu", he said.
Several organizations have time and again staged protest against referral system in vogue in Jammu province but administration has failed to ensure basic facilities. A doctor at GMC Jammu said that if adequate facilities would be provided in all primary and tertiary health institutions, the workload in GMC&H would reduce and patients would also get treatment at their doorsteps. |
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