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| 2 yrs on, elevator at GMC Anantnag continues to remain dysfunctional | | | SAAHIL SUHAIL
EARLY TIMES REPORT
ANANTNAG, Aug 19: Despite the passage of over two years now, the authorities at Government Medical College (GMC) Anantnag have failed to make the hospital’s only elevator functional.
According to reports, the Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC) had installed a lift in the hospital a few years ago, however it continues to remain dysfunctional.
In July 2019, mechanical wing of Jammu & Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC) conducted trials of the elevator and it functioned for some time. “The elevator was closed for the public a few minutes after a top officer of the health and medical education department inaugurated it,” an officer at GMC Anantnag said, adding ill and aged old patients were suffering due to non-functioning of the elevator.
He said that the elevator was never opened for public use and it continues to remain dysfunctional since the day it was put on trial.
A spot visit reveals that the patients continue to use the stairs of the four-storey building and even many aged patients can be seen taking long rests while going up the stairs.
GMC Anantnag is a four storey building and caters to the maximum population of South Kashmir. Officials said that despite lockdown restriction imposed due to COVID-19 hundreds of patients continue to visit the hospital for availing treatment.
“We have raised the issue multiple times with the concerned agency and even with top officers of administration but nothing changed. We have also written to JKPCC multiple times but they never responded,” Medical Superintendent GMC Anantnag Dr Iqbal Sofi told Early Times.
He said that the mechanical wing of the Corporation hadn’t even responded to official communication.
Fasal Azamat Shah, DGM JKPCC (Mechanical) on being contacted told Early Times that they have approached the contractor and directed him to make the elevator functional without wasting more time.
“Contractor has assured that they will arrive on 20th of this month. We have stopped the payments to the company which executed the work,” he said while assuring the elevator will be made functional very soon. |
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