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| Jammu records 70 percent COVID deaths, ventilators under scanner | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 22: For the last one week, the Jammu region is recording over 70 percent of total COVID deaths in the Union Territory. This trend has created fear among residents of this part of the UT because inhabitants of this division had witnessed “death dance” during the peak of the second wave of the deadly virus. During the last 24 hours, seven persons lost their lives due to the deadly virus. Out of these deaths, five were reported from Jammu province only. So far 4598 people have died due to the virus—2246 in the Jammu division and 2352 in Kashmir Valley.
The COVID deaths during the last one week have once again raised doubt among residents of the Jammu region that ventilators installed in different health institutions are not of good quality.
As reported earlier by this newspaper RTI activist Balvinder Singh has claimed that officials of the health department of the Jammu division have 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 query, for the reasons best known to them.
Balvinder Singh claimed that the installation of defective ventilators in health institutions of Jammu division Jammu could be one of the major reasons/factor responsible for the highest COVID mortality rate in the Jammu division as compared to Kashmir Valley during the second wave.
It was demanded that the government should constitute a committee of experts to examine the functioning of all the ventilators installed in various health institutions of JK UT, supplied under PM Cares. Two months have been passed but no action has been taken so far in this regard.
Neither functioning of ventilators has been examined nor has an audit of health infrastructure been done so far. |
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