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| WHO WILL SHARE THE BLAME? | | CT SCAN OUT OF ORDER, PATIENTS AIRLIFTED TO JAMMU MEDICAL COLLEGE FOR SPECIALISED TREATMENT | |
Jammu, August 23 : Hospital authorities at Government Medical College, Jammu on Wednesday came in for sharp criticism after it failed to rectify the technical snag in a CT scan plant forcing doctors to refer the critically injured passengers airlifted from Rajouri for specialized treatment to private diagnostic centre for CT scan wasting precious time.
After patients were airlifted from Rajouri to Jammu they suffered in silence for long hours as they were shifted from one place to another in the absence of functional CT scan plant inside Medical college.
First the patients were shifted from the ambulances to emergency ward. Then from emergency ward to private diagnostic centre located outside the meical hospital in a street behind Shakuntala cinema hall and finally from the same diagnostic centre to emergency ward and then recovery ward.
Though less rush of patients finally saved the day for hapless patients but it exposed the state of affairs inside Jammu Medical college.
The incident left many questions unanswered for our experts and planners to answer who boast of providing state of the art infrastructure in health sector across the state.
After the incident the common question everyone was asking, What if rush of patients had increased due to some other mishap or militant attack or due to any other natural disaster? Why state medical authorities failed to plug the snag in time when the same was detected on Tuesday? Who should be held accountable for playing with the lives of innocent patients. The medical superintendent for not acting on time or the principal of the medical college for not taking cognizance of the faulty CT scan machine or the bureaucrats sitting in the civil secretariat for not releasing enough funds for procuring new machines and ignoring the demands of the hospital authorities for modernizing hospital infrastructure or the poltical leadership for failing to rise to the occasion and addressing the problem?
On Wednesday, out of fifteen passengers who were shifted from Rajouri to Jammu Medical college, five had serious head injuries and CT scan was required before starting their specialized treatment.College Principal Mumtaz Goni said, since our CT scan plant was out of order we arranged hassle free transport of patients to a nearby diagnostic centre and the expenses were borne out by the hospital authorities. |
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