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| Kashmir Floods: All valley hospitals failed to come true to people's expectations | | | Shakeel A Khan,
SRINAGAR, Sept 25: The natural calamities like the recent devastating flood demand more sincere efforts as for as the provision of health facilities to the people are concerned. But in Kashmir it has happened the other way given the fact that the premier hospitals like S.M.H.S, Lal Ded, the sole maternity hospital, G B Pant Hospital and SKIMS Bemina failed to come true to the expectations of the people.
Believe it or not, but it is a fact that the administration of the premier hospitals of the Srinagar city, instead of staying with the patients, left them to be devoured by the death in the form of the flood water that entered these hospitals. The superintendents and the doctors posted in these hospitals vacated the hospitals leaving the patients at the mercy of the God and in this way the administration and the doctors displayed their sense of irresponsibility.
In Valley, there is a wave of anger against the administration of the hospitals and whom they want to be brought to the justice for leaving the helpless people alone and without thinking as to what would happen to them. Even a butcher offers water to the animal before slaughtering him but the way the administrations of the hospitals acted draws no parallel in the world.
The patients and the attendants at the GB pant hospital and at the Lal Ded hospital will never forget those moments when the flood water had entered these hospitals. The fast rising water in these hospitals made them believe that the end of their lives had come. The moments became more and more horrible since most of the patients couldn't move on their own. Given the nature of the patients at the Lal Ded hospital, makes everybody understand that how pathetic the atmosphere would have been there.
"There were the scenes of the doomsday when the Jehlum breached the dam near the hospital and it appeared that the flood water was coming to the hospital from all directions and gaining height at a tremendous speed. The water produced horrible sounds on entering the hospital, threatening to kill each and everyone present there. What frightened us more was that the patients and the attendants could hear the doctor telling a nurse to look after the patients and in a few moments from that none of the doctors could be seen at the hospital," said a patient wishing not to named while narrating her experiences in the flood hit Lal Ded hospital, the sole maternity hospital of the valley.
This patient went on saying that all the patients who were trapped in the hospital owe their life to the brave hearts of the down town city who did the real heroics with the limited sources at their disposal. This patient said had this job been left to the government, which isn't visible till date, she along with other patients would have breathed their last. |
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