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| Designate GMC Anantnag as COVID-19 Hospital’ | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, May 7: Doctors, working at Government Medical College Anantnag, on Friday demanded that the Associated Hospital of Medical College be designated as COVID-19 Hospital and twenty ICU beds be set up for severely ill COVID-19 positive patients.
“There is urgent need to increase High flow oxygen beds and setup at least 20 bedded ICU facility at GMC Hospital Anantnag exclusively for COVID-19 services,” the doctors associated with Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) and Health Employees Association of GMC Hospital Anantnag said in a joint statement.
The doctors’ bodies also unanimously demanded that the AH of Government Medical College Anantnag (DH Anantnag) be converted into full-fledged Covid Hospital due to availability of High Flow oxygen plants.
The Association also demanded augmentation of manpower especially in Radiology, Medicine and Anesthesiology departments for better and effective delivery of Covid services.
There is also urgent need to allocate more bulk type Oxygen Cylinders along with refilling facility for additional oxygen beds so as to be ready for any upcoming challenge, doctors, who had called a virtual a meeting to discuss J&K government latest decision under which GMC Anantnag was declared Tertiary Care Hospital for Anantnag and Kulgam districts in South Kashmir, observed.
Besides demanding setting up of a Digital Cardiac Cath Lab, the doctors also asked the Government to extend COVID-19 incentives to all employees of the health and medical education department without any bar as all of them were working directly or indirectly and playing a crucial role in COVID-19 mitigation program.
As reported earlier, GMC Anantnag has around seven (7) high end ventilators however it doesn’t have required manpower to run these ventilators as a result which the hospital administration couldn’t setup ICU bed for COVID-19 patients despite the fact it was declared Tertiary Care Hospital for Anantnag and Kulgam districts of South Kashmir.
Similarly, the Trauma Hospital Bijbehara has also two ventilators but again doesn’t have staff to run these two ventilators during critical times. According to reports, the ventilators across Kashmir due to staff shortage were also lying dysfunctional. |
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