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| 3 months on, JKMSCL fails to supply ventilators to GMC Anantnag | | 15 ventilators for 15 lakh population in South Kashmir hospitals! | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, July 16: Despite the passage of over three months now, the Jammu Kashmir Medical Supplies Corporation has failed to supply the required number of ventilators to Government Medical College Anantnag at a time when people in large numbers are coming to hospitals with severe bilateral pneumonia requiring oxygen and many needing intensive-care setting. The Medical College authorities had in the month of March ordered the procurement of ten ventilators and had placed the order before the Jammu Kashmir Medical Supplies Corporation but ironically the corporation has failed to deliver the machines till date.
Principal Government Medical College Anantnag Dr Showket Jeelani while talking to Early Times said, “We had placed the order before the corporation for procurement of ventilators last year in the month of November and now this year in the month of March we placed the same order again before the corporation.”
Dr Jeelani said that the Corporation has only supplied two ventilators to Government Medical College while they had placed orders for 20 ventilators.
With this the Government Medical College Anantnag has now seven (7) ventilators among which five (5) are transportable ventilators. Officials said that the isolation ward set up at Government Medical College has sixteen beds and all of them are occupied.
“We are going to set up another isolation ward,” officials at GMC Anantnag said.
Situation in the other districts of South Kashmir-Kulgam, Shopain and Pulwama-is also worrying.
Chief Medical Officer Pulwama said that they have four (4) ventilators at District Hospital Pulwama.
Similarly District Hospital Shopain has only two ventilators and both are transportable. Kulgam district Hospital also has only two transportable ventilators. So far a population over 15 lakh there are only 15 ventilators in South Kashmir hospitals.
Back in Anantnag, the Maternity and Child Care Hospital (M&CCH) is also functioning without a ventilator from last over 20 years and the government despite being requested several times has never bothered to provide this basic facility to the hospital.
Doctors Association Kashmir President Dr Nissar-ul-Hassan in a statement said that ‘for the last few days people in large numbers are coming to hospitals with severe bilateral pneumonia requiring oxygen and many needing intensive-care settings. Lockdown is the only tool to tackle the situation we are in.” |
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