| District Hospital Kathua sans ARVs | | Against required 17000 injections, JKMSCL supplied only 5500 last year | | G S Asgotra
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 10: The district hospital Kathua and its adjoining Tehsil levels government health centres (PHCs and CHCs) are running without anti rabies vaccines, forcing the gullible patients to purchase the vaccines from the open market .
Sources informed Early Times that the acute shortage of anti rabies vaccines in district hospital and other health institutions in the district since last one month had forced the victims to purchased the vaccine from the open market.
Hospital sources said everyday three to four dog bite victims visit the District Hospital where they are given anti-tetanus injection. They are told to purchase the ARV from the open market at Rs 1500.
The matter has been taken up with the concerned time and again without results. The Jammu Kashmir Medical Supplies Corporation, they said, seems in no mood to supply the much needed vaccine.
Chief Medical Office, Kathua Ashok Choudhary said that the JKMSCL supplied only 5500 vaccines against a requirement of 15000- 17000. He expressed hope that the corporation will do the needful and supply adequate quantity of the vaccine from next month. |
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