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| Mismanagement continues at GMC | | Charge fee for using toilets | | G S Asgotra
Jammu, Oct 26: Instead of mending their ways to improve management at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H), the administration has put forward one more step in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode, by giving a toilet complex of hospital to private hands and has started charging fee for its usage.
Sources informed Early Times that few months back, the GMC&H administration had handed over the diagnostic equipments to private hands under the same PPP mode, probably for better maintenance and smooth functioning of the diagnostic equipments and in the new turn, administration has also handed over public toilet complex to private hands.
"It seems that the administration of GMC&H has been concealing their inefficiency and steadily has been making inroads for private players in the name of proper maintenance and proper cleaning", a doctor said, and further castigated that the GMC has large army of sweepers, who have been getting regular salaries but administration has been failed to take work from them.
The administration has been making pleas that people belonging to far flung areas, who otherwise were considered dirty, have been making the toilets dirty and filthy.
He further said that in the name of germ free clean toilets the hospital administration has started charging fee from the patients and commuters at that time, when attendants of the patients were in traumatized conditions.
The GMC administration has also been claiming that there was shortage of sweepers and they have made the advertisement in newspapers. "But one question arises, after the appointment of sweepers, the private players would be thrown out of the hospital", he questioned and alleged that all it has been done under the well planned conspiracy to increase privatization of every facility.
Mohammed Shakeel (65), resident of Poonch has been suffering from gastro ailments told this correspondent that he was staying in emergency ward for the last three days and using the toilets in short intervals of time but every time he had to pay Rs. 5 as usage charges, to the man sitting outside the toilet premises. "It is literally impossible for me to pay at toilet complex every time as I am very poor and majority of patients come to GMC are poor and if they would have money, they would go to private hospitals rather than GMC", he said.
GMC Principal Ganshyam gave a simple reply that due to dearth of sweepers the toilets have been handed over to Sulbah International for maintenance. He further said that only Rs. 2 has been charged from users, which was not a huge amount. |
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