| Number of items stolen, investigation needed: Dr Gani | | In absence of boundary wall, Kupwara hospital prone to encroachment, thefts | |  WASIM MAJNOON MIR
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, June 13: The absence of a boundary wall around Sub District Hospital Kupwara has made it prone to encroachment, while thefts of some basic amenities taking place in its peripheries.
A project for construction of a boundary wall around the hospital was sanctioned by the government years ago, but the same could not be constructed properly or completely due to one reason or the other, sources said.
They added that due to absence of a boundary wall, which acts as a protective covering around any institution, a free-for-all situation is prevailing in the hospital. “People come in and move outside the hospital from more than half dozen temporary pathways as there is no boundary wall to restrict them and they move from whichever direction they like,” sources added.
District Health Officer / District Nodal officer for COVID-19, Dr Abdul Gani Dar while talking to Early Times, Dr Gani said that it is very unfortunate that the people here don’t even have a sense to judge what belongs to them while being living in the vicinity of govt buildings especially near govt hospitals.
“There is a common trend to enter the hospital premises by creating breaches/ trespasses in the boundary wall and resort to manage all household and requisite works within premises, leaving a good chunk of waste material behind to be cleared by the hospital authorities. The people are even bringing dust bins to drop these in the hospital premises,” he said. This disease is more prevalent at SDH Kupwara where the encroachments and breaches in the boundary walls have been made at minimum 10 points. The people have been crossing the premises even during Covid-19 when about 150 active patients were admitted in the hospital thereby violating all protocols which demanded a punitive action. The hospital premises are in a great mess as people roam from all trespass points, the cleanliness and sanitation gets jeopardized and the entry in hospital premises is not checked.
“Furthermore, it is shocking that the number of blankets/ linen has been reduced to half during the Covid period and rest is missing. Glucometers, Pulse oximeters are also reportedly missing. Who has stolen this all, covid patients, staff on duty or the people freely roaming in the premises through these breach points which needs to be investigated,” Dr Gani said.
“If there are sensible citizens, civil society members, the representatives of doctors/paramedical associations existing and that too as sons of soil of Kupwara, they should have come forward to safeguard the land belonging to this public hospital and maintained the sanctity of this hospital for sole motive of patient care,” he added.
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