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Early Times Report
Jammu, May 13: Sounds incredible but true, higher-ups of the Jammu’s premier health institute-Government Medical College & Hospital (GMC) are still busy resolving technicalities to install ventilators sent by the Union Government under Prime Minister’s Care Programme.
Shockingly ‘massacre’ of helpless COVID patients is going unabated in GMC for the last more than one month, but authorities are still resolving technicalities.
During a recent review meeting, Principal GMC, Dr Shashi Sudhan Sharma said that the ventilators under PM Care have been received and will be used after certain technicalities are resolved in the shortest possible time.
Ironically, it is mentioned in the third paragraph of the official handout issued by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) that technicalities are yet to be resolved to install these ventilators.
At this crucial time when family members of the patients preferred to stay at home instead of going to GMC for treatment due to non-availability of infrastructure, authorities of GMC have still not resolved to install ventilators.
Meanwhile RTI activist, Balvinder Singh said that it is true that JK UT officials of H&ME instead of installing ventilators received 400 under PM Care fund, send most of them to CHC’s, PHC’s NTPHC’s and Sub District hospitals knowingly that these institutions don’t have the required infrastructure to install these ventilators and make them functional as it is possible only when such institutions should have 24x7 electric Backup, Oxygen generation Plant or Manifold oxygen, trained technicians, and at least two Anesthetic Doctors to perform their duties round the clock.
Singh said most of the institutions where these ventilators were dispatched they don’t have the required infrastructure so it’s a most foolish act on the part of the officers sitting at the helm of affairs who decided to send ventilators at such places where they are lying defunct and shall remain unused for the years to come. |
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