EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Sept 13: All health institutes of Jammu province including the premier Government Medical College (GMC) have slipped into 'deep coma' due to alleged casual approach of the officials.
Credible sources said that health institutes have completely collapsed with an increasing number of corona positive cases and doctors in these institutes taking the excuse of COVID-19 to shriek their responsibilities.
"On one hand all institutions lack basic infrastructure to fight the pandemic as those at the helm of the affairs had wasted lockdown period to equip hospitals with infrastructure, while on the other their senior doctors are not shouldering their responsibilities," sources alleged.
They said, "From the day one when the first patient of Coronavirus was detected on March 9, all senior doctors are skirting their responsibilities."
Some patients who recovered from the deadly virus revealed that "except throwing them in the isolation wards no effort was made by the doctors to treat them. All the patients infected with the virus are being treated like animals", the patients alleged and regretted that people's representatives got VIP treatment in private hospitals and poor patients were left to fend on their own.
As per official record to combat this viral disease J&K has a total of 21664 isolation beds, 432 ICU beds, 454 ventilators and 5296 oxygen supported beds while some 342 ventilators are in transit and1630 oxygen outlets are to be installed in next two months. On August 20, authorities had announced that establishment of more oxygen generation plants in 29 districts and associated hospitals were in pipeline for which Rs 150 crore have already been allocated by the UT government.
As many as 170226 PPE kits, 222345 N-95 Masks, 13,94,439 triple layer masks, 91,808 sanitizers, 2,90,340 VTM, 2,60,372 RNA extraction kits and 1,45,000 Rapid Antigen (Point of Care) Test are available with health department. "But the biggest question is where this material is? Patients are dying for the demand of ventilators but authorities claim to have surplus," the sources added. |
