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| "All 165 ventilators supplied to SMHS Srinagar under "PM CARES" found defective" | | Balvinder urges Chief Justice JK High Court to take cognizance | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 8: An RTI, filed in Health & Medical Education Department of J&K, made very shocking revelations with regard to the functioning of ventilators of different Make/Brand supplied to JK UT under "PM CARES," said renowned RTI activist Balvinder Singh.
Addressing a press conference here today, Balvinder Singh said that though Officials of the Health Department & from H&ME Department from Jammu division admit that the ventilators supplied to them are not of good quality and are not functioning properly but they didn't give exact detail in response to his RTI query, for the reasons best known to them. GMC Jammu has shown that only 13 ventilators out of 179 are defective and are not working.
Balvinder said he had all praise for GMC Srinagar especially HOD Anesthesiology & Critical care Medicines GMC Srinagar who didn't care for any pressure or his/her compulsions and gave clear information with regard to the defective Ventilators of three different Make/Brand, supplied to them under "PM CARE" for the better Patient care Management.
HOD Department of Anesthesiology stated in his/her Reply that the departments received Bharat Ventilators from Medical Superintendent SMHS Hospital and were put in trial run. However, all these ventilators returned to Medical Sup SMHS Hospital due to compressor/heat up problems, which resulted in sudden shut down of these ventilators. Thus, these ventilators do not support patient care management.
HOD further states that 3 Agva Ventilators installed in SMHS Hospital, however these ventilators are non-functional due to certain problems like display not hgtgfworking properly, problem in generating tidal volume.
So far as the Ventilators of DHAMAN-III is concerned HOD stated in the reply that 125 ventilators of this Make are stationed at DRDO Hospital Khonmoh Srinagar, out of 125 ventilators, 2 are in SMHS Hospital for trial run in order to ascertain whether these ventilators generate required tidal volume and after a trial rum, it was observed that : (i) Tidal Volume had not generated. (ii) The required Fi02 could not be delivered to the patients, thus is not feasible to be put in use for patient care. (iii) Ventilators stops automatically, hence, put patients at risk. HOD also submits that beside these 22 more Agva Ventilators are stationed at DRDO under trial.
Balvinder Singh along with other civil society members Mohinder Sharma, Anil Nargotra and Harish Soi said they believes that the installation of defective ventilators in health institutions of Jammu division Jammu could be one of the major reason/factor responsible for highest Covid-198 Mortality rate in Jammu Division as compared to Kashmir.
Keeping in view the seriousness of the issue and to save the precious lives of the inhabitants of the UT, as there is every apprehension of the arrival of 3rd Covid-19 wave, we make humble submission before the Chief Justice of J&K High Court to take serious cognizance of the issue and give directions to the Chief Secretary to constitute committee of experts to examine the functioning of the all the ventilators installed in various health institutions of JK UT, supplied under PM Cares, and take stringent action against the suppliers of such defective Ventilators and also initiate disciplinary action against officers of Health & Medical Education department for dereliction of duty as how they have approved the installation of defective ventilators , without putting them on trial by the experts, in various health institutions of the JK UT and putting the lives of the patients at high risk. So that faith of the general public be restored on the Health system of the JK UT, they said. |
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