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| Amid Covid crisis, SKIMS stops critical tests for patients | | Medicos seek Raj Bhawan’s intervention | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 17: Even as a medical crisis is looming large over Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of spike in Covid19 cases, the SK Institute of Medical Sciences Soura here has stopped some of the critical tests for the patients.
Official documents reveal that concerned have shot a letter that due to paucity of resources some of the critical tests have been stopped.
In a communication to the Medical superintendent, the Head of Department of Clinical Hematology in SKIMS , Dr Javed Rasool, has informed that the department has been forced to stop various medical tests some of which are life saving. These include Nutritional profile including Ferritin, Hemolytic profile and ESR.
“As it has been repeatedly informed that the staff strength in our lab' is less than 36 % at current, because of which the staff is already overburdened. Recently, our trained staff has been transferred from the Department and only 50 % of the replaced staff have joined.
The Department is not in a position to continue 24x7 basis in absence of trained fully replaced staff.
Therefore, we are being forced to stop the following services with immediate effect. 1. Nutrional Lab including Ferritin. 2. Hemolytic Profile. 3. ESR,” reads the letter, a copy of which lies with the Early Times.
A delegation of doctors said “This has been a result of the severe crunch in the staff position that have been taken away and not replaced.”
“The story of crunch of staff as well as reagents is not limited to the department alone,” they said.
Sources who wished anonymity said that “various laboratory departments like Immunology and Biochemistry have been suffering for past many months because the administration is reluctant to purchase the reagents for various tests despite multiple requisitions by the departments.”
“These include critical tests for COVID patients like ferritin and antibody to COVID virus,” the sources said.
The sources linked the stoppage of the procurement to the “Director's likes and dislikes of the faculty.”
“Any department whose faculty head is not liked by the director, faces the same stone walling of their procurements This has adversely affected the functioning of these departments. Infact it has not been restricted to SKIMS, but even medical college departments of biochemistry are suffering because of the director not allowing purchases because either the HOD is not liked or the vendor who supplies the reagents are not liked,” said a delegation of doctors on the condition of anonymity.
Pertinently, the government is already investigating a number of COVID related purchases made by the SKIMS in violation of the financial code and proper purchase process.
“In a recent letter the investigating officer of the inquiry officer has even asked (name withheld) about details of one officer and one senior faculty member who are in the close coterie and have been given charges of multiple departments in clear violation of the norms,” the doctors said.
When contacted a SKIMS official confirmed that the letter about stopping of tests was genuine but refuted allegations as leveled by the doctors.
Meanwhile the doctors have appealed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to personally look into the “deteriorating standards of SKIMS that at this critical juncture, even the critical tests have been stopped.” |
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