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| Construction in GMC&H irk patients | | | PARDEEP SINGH
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 31: Patients admitted in Governmental Medical College & Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu these days are irked with the ongoing construction work within the hospital premises.
Since the tile cutting work is going on in full swing near Recovery ward, the ailing patients and their attendants are subjected to deafening sounds of machines being used for the job.
Most of the patients as well as their attendants expressed annoyance over the lethargic attitude of administration for unwarranted delay in executing tile cutting work outside recovery ward which is creating a lot of inconvenience for them.
Attendants of patients’ alleged administration for taking patients casually by starting construction work within hospital without initiating alternative arrangements for those admitted in the hospital.
“This is childish on the part of administration to create lot of fuss outside the recovery ward, the noise of tile cutter is so loud that it irritates normal person passes through that ward, than it is obvious that patients would definitely get irked with such earsplitting sound,” said Rakesh Kumar, an attendant adding that due to the ongoing work, they can’t even take proper rest.
An ENT specialist on condition of anonymity told Early Times “The physiologic effects of noise could be dangerous. These noise levels stimulate the hyperphysical- adrenocortical axis of patients, exceed the threshold for peripheral vasoconstriction, pose a threat to hearing in patients receiving aminoglycosidic antibiotics and are incompatible with sleep which would be hazardous for patient’s health.”
According to noise experts a tolerable sound threshold for sick people is considerably lower than healthy one, “noise can provoke many physiological responses, it can startle the patient, damage his hearing, stimulate epinephrine production, induce sensory disturbances, constrict peripheral and coronary. In short noise to a sick can led to death,” said expert Sandeep.
“It is good to renovate hospital building but it should not be by putting comfort of patients on stake, they should mark the area and fit tiles prepared from outside so that their work accomplishes without making noise,” said a patient, wishing anonymity.
When Early Times tried to contact concerned authorities of hospital, on repetitive calling the phone numbers of Principal and Superintendent of GMC was switched off, whereas on official number there was no one to comment.
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