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| Patients at mercy of God, medicare near collapse | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu | Aug 9
It is understandable that the situation in Jammu is tense and it needs precautionary restrictions in shape of curfew and other curbs on movement, but on whose mercy are the hundreds of patients in various government and private hospitals of the city.
Various hospitals and nursing homes across the city, including the prestigious Government Medical College Hospital, the all-important SMGS Hospital and the private ASCOMS Hospital are running, if not empty, terribly short of doctors and paramedical staff. Worse still, even hundreds of patients ailing badly and seeking an immediate medical care have not been able to reach the hospitals.
The authorities, in last 15 days, have several times had announced the official identity cards of the doctors and other paramedical staff shall be treated as curfew passes. However, these orders being breached by the administration itself. At the first instance, the Army refuses to honour these cards as curfew passes. And then the administration itself sends across fresh orders to the Army and Police that even those carrying valid curfew passes should also be not allowed to move through. Net result: the medical care has come to a near collapse.
A survey made by this reporter revealed that in all the government hospitals whether in SMGS, GMC, Sarwal hospital and Gandhi Nagar hospital the attendance register of the doctors is running blank for several days. On being contacting a number of doctors it came to be known that authorities at the helm of the affairs are much responsible for the present shortage of staff in hospitals.
The authorities who ordered that the identity cards provided to them should be entertained as their curfew pass go in air. The police and the security forces deployed by the authorities are not willing to entertain their identity cards besides they become subject of harassment .Keeping this thing in mind half of the staff of doctors are absent from their duties. Now preceding towards the query of the doctors it came to know that even seventy out of hundred of Kashmiri Post Graduate doctors went to Kashmir without informing their HoDs causing great scarcity of the doctors in the hospitals. When sort out reason it came to know that they demanded security from the authorities which was not provided to them resulting their migration. Talking to the scribe a HoD preferring anonymity said that hospital administration is responsible for this He said that it is the responsibility of the administration to provide the Ambulances to the doctors for their pick and drop service. The work load on those doctors who are serving day and night in the hospitals has become louder and louder and now they are in a condition to leave the hospital forgetting their Hippocratic oath for the services of the humanity. Taking to the side of the patients they are the worst sufferers as they have no other options but to move towards hospitals for getting ill treatment. Sensing the looming large danger principle of the GMC has issued the letter to the concerned HoDs to show the present situation. |
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