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Salman Nizami
JAMMU JULY 19: On last Friday night, a patient namely Nargis Begum of Gujjar Nagar Jammu who was seriously ill and wasn’t even able to move was brought to the Government Medical college’s emergency ward, her attendants accompanied her found no empty bed or chair and realized how hard life could be in a hospital in Jammu.
First there was no chair or a bed around where the patient could be placed. After hectic efforts, when a chair was found, the doctor in the emergency was apparently in no mood to examine the patient.
The attendant insisted the doctor to examine the patient. But ostensibly tired of the hard work, he casually enquired what the patient’s problem was. It irritated the attendant. Before he could say anything more, the doctor asked the attendant to get the admit card.
To get the admit card is a Herculean task. Everyone there is in hurry but for the person who issues the card. It takes at least 20 minutes to get the card. And every minute counts when it is a question of human life.
He got the admit card and placed it before the doctor. He looked at the card and started examining another patient. Infuriated, the attendant shouted at the doctor. The young doctor shouted back. But soon he realized the agony of the attendant and agreed to examine the patient. After half an hour, the patient was asked to go for an x-ray and ECG. After checking the reports of x-ray and ECG, the doctor told the attendant that the patient needs cardiac checkup, which isn’t possible in the evening. A senior doctor pleading anonymity told EARLY TIMES, “In all the super specialty hospitals across India,
Emergency wards are well equipped with basic facilities, but at GMC Jammu, it is a mess. All the facilities should be under one roof in emergency, but I’m at loss to understand why authorities here are playing with the lives of patients.”
But the larger question remains? When will this institute of Jammu continue to live with dying emergency wards? It has more patients, less doctors and a very few beds. Appreciating the write up in Early Times in the months of June 2009 issue that there in only one blood pressure apparatus, next day 10 new BP apparatus were made available in the emergency. Completing admission formalities here are more important than saving life. Two or three junior doctors have to attend hundreds of patients visiting the emergency and in case of any blast or accident, the situation turns graver. Medical Superintendent GMC agrees with the views, but with a caveat. “We need a separate emergency to cater the huge rush of patients.
The Medical Superintendent said that on short-term basis, the existing emergency would be renovated. “We’re doing some re-structuring of the emergency and creating backup wards.”
But he also blamed people for creating mess in the emergency. “GMC is a specialty hospital. But patients who should be treated in primary health centers also flood the GMC, which creates the mess. Quality and quantity can never go together,” he added.
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