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| Absurd but true! Patients of Super Specialty hospital carried on stretchers for fitting pacemakers | | Patients, attendants made to shiver due to improper heating arrangements | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 11: A super specialty hospital located in any part of the world is bound to provide all facilities under a single roof, but that is not the case with such a hospital located in the summer capital of Jammu & Kashmir.
At the same time it may somewhat absurd and unbelievable, but it is true. The patients suffering heart ailment and are in need of fitment or replacement of a pacemaker are carried all along from the super specialty hospital located in the Shireen Bagh to the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital.
Sources told Early Times that the patients are carried on a stretcher to the SMHS hospital where the pacemaker is fitted to them or is replaced. They said the authorities of super specialty hospital don't provide any ambulance facility to the patients who are in need of replacing or fitting the pacemaker.
"It is pathetic that no ambulance is provided to patients who are suffering from heart problem and are in need of placement of a pacemaker or replacing the same. Given the fact that there is a huge rush on the main road connecting super specialty hospital with SMHS hospital one cannot rule out an accident of a patient suffering from heart ailment," said sources.
Sources said that in addition to the huge rush of people and automobiles the heart patients are put to trouble by facing the vagaries of weather. They said that patients have to brave blistering heat, heavy snowfall and incessant rainfall in order to get the pacemakers fitted or replaced and come back.
"The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital is also in a bad shape and things need to be improved to a great extent. Although, the winter season has already set in the heating arrangements are also not up to the mark in the whole hospital. The patients as well as attendants are made to shiver in the ICU and the other wards of super specialty hospital," said sources.
Sources said that the condition of washrooms in the hospital is pitiable with taps being broken, floors being dirty and the flush system dysfunctional. They said that the washrooms have to be shared by the males and females at the hospital since the washrooms meant for females are always locked.
"Lives of patients are put to risk since the beds are broken and the non-functional side stands of beds can cave in anytime leading to an accident. Many wheel chairs are also broken and they have not been replaced so far. The house keeping at the hospital is poor with the cleaning operation starting only after 9 AM and there is no accountability whatsoever," said sources.
Sources said that just few days back had a miraculous escape after a three wheeler stand fell on him as the same was out of order. They said the attendants are forced to take their meals in the compound since no waiting hall has been constructed for them adding that problems get compounded during winter. |
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