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| Even during LG’s visit, RO Plant at GMC Anantnag remains dysfunctional | | Patients, attendants forced to buy mineral water from market | |  Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, June 1: The RO (reverse osmosis) plant installed at Government Medical College Anantnag way back in 2015 continues to remain dysfunctional. In the absence of a functional RO (reverse osmosis) plant, patients as well as staff members at GMC Anantnag are forced to either drink unfiltered water or purchase mineral water from the market. The RO Plant at Anantnag district hospital was installed by Rajiv Gandhi Foundation after devastating floods hit Kashmir in 2014.
“The worth of this RO plant is around Rs 25 lakhs and the foundation had installed it to provide relief to patients and attendants,” a former Congress leader told Early Times.
He however said that he was shocked to learn that the hospital administration failed to maintain it.
On Tuesday, during LG’s visit to Government Medical College Anantnag the RO plant was spotted lying dysfunctional. “Last year a local NGO came to restart this plant and made it functional but I think it is deliberately being made dysfunctional so that people buy mineral water from a nearby private canteen,” an employee at GMC Anantnag said, he wished not be named.
A group of Anantnag residents told Early Times that they had brought this issue into the notice hospital administration but nothing was being done.
A reverse osmosis plant is a manufacturing plant where the process of reverse osmosis takes place. Reverse osmosis is a common process to purify or desalinate contaminated water by forcing water through a membrane.
Important to mention here, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha along with Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta and other senior officers from civil and police administration visited GMC Anantnag to review the arrangements made for fighting COVID-19.
LG directed the hospital administration to utilize the services of doctors and paramedics properly and strengthen the facilities on priority. He also directed them to increase testing and vaccination programs. |
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