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| Rein in private hospitals | | | Private hospitals in Jammu charging patients according to their whims and fancies have made these health facilities inaccessible for the poor people.
These hospitals have to be reigned in especially during the ongoing second wave of COVID-19. These institutions cannot deny admissions to the people in the prevailing emergency situation.
The Divisional Commissioner Jammu has taken a strong note of the hospitals enforcing their writ and doing whatever they want.
The Div Com has directed these health facilities to fix the rates and do justice with the patients in COVID times.
One hopes that these health facilities follow his directions in letter and spirit and show their humane face in the times of health emergency crisis.
Jammu is not the only place where the private hospitals are dictating terms and are making the patients, who can afford to pay through their nose, the ones who cannot afford are not even allowed to enter into the hospital premises.
In many states the government hospitals are running full. There have been reports that the private hospitals are not admitting the patients who cannot pay.
The present situation in Jammu is not that grim as people are trying to manage the COVID patients in their homes. But the way virus is behaving nothing can be predicted. Situation can take an ugly turn at any point of time and people may need the support of the hospitals to save the critical patients.
The administration needs to remain prepared to handle the peak where patients would be needing ventilators and oxygen at that point of time private hospitals cannot just turn their backs on patients by making deposition of the advance fee as the criteria.
The administration should not allow the private healthcare institutes in J&K to treat the patients in a way the private hospitals have handled the situation.
The Divisional Commissioner Jammu by making an attempt to make these private health institutions fall in the line is a good beginning. If the COVID-19 cases increase authorities should be in a position to handle the cases.
When the first wave of the COVID-19 struck last year the health department was caught napping as the oxygen plants failed to cater to the high end ventilators and it was a chaotic situation. This time around the situation is a bit difficult and it needs to be handled with care. |
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