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| Woes of GMC Jammu! Neurosurgery department non-existent; unit goes defunct | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi | 8/29/2011 1:08:44 AM |
| EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 28: Despite road accidents being major cause of death across the state, neurosurgery department of Government Medical College Hospital (GMCH) Jammu is still non-existent. Instead, what exists is defunct, headless neurosurgery unit.
The head of the unit M.L. Babu retired recently. The unit is now being managed by two Assistant Surgeons namely Dr. Haroon Salaria and Dr. Sudhir Sabarwal. Unconcerned, state government has put the burden of neurosurgery on general surgery department without realizing the fact that only experts can handle neurosurgery cases.
Sources said that these two neurosurgeons do not get even the basic infrastructure like operation theatres on time to operate upon the patients. They added hat functioning of neurosurgery has got badly affected due to shortage of doctors, manpower and the basic infrastructure required for highly sensitive operations.
Sources revealed that presently neurosurgery has been clubbed with general surgery and it has to share the infrastructure of General Surgery, which is hardly available for the neurosurgeons on a regular basis. Sources added that the lone two neurosurgeons have to virtually beg for the operation theatre for carrying out the routine neurosurgeries.
With no separate department, Neurosurgery unit doesn't have the required infrastructure of its own to work in a proper manner. They maintain that neurosurgery unit lacks both neurosurgeons and infrastructure to perform routine neurosurgeries in a proper manner. In the past, there have been many instances when patients have died due to non-availability of the Neurosurgery on time, revealed sources.
Head injuries on account of the road accidents are quite common, especially in the hilly districts like Doda, Kishtwar, Rajouri and Poonch. With no neurosurgeon available, many of the patients with critical head injuries die en-route to the main referral hospital of the province, which is itself battling for proper infrastructure.
Sources said that after the retirement of Babu, the two neurosurgeons face an uncomfortable situation wherein they have no one to oversee neurosurgeries which they would be performing. They added that government has been apprised about retirement of Babu and told to make arrangement for making the unit functional.
In other units of the hospital, there is faculty of five to six doctors, specialists and Head-of the Department (HOD) but Neurosurgery unit lacks even neurosurgeons. Sources said that due to the indifferent attitude of the authorities, efficient doctors are not able to deliver their best. Most of the patients with brain disorders and head-injuries are being referred outside the state. Medical experts pointed out that there is need to appoint sufficient number of neurosurgeons and setup full-fledged department of neurosurgery.
Sources affirmed that it is quite difficult for neurosurgeons to manage rush of the patients from across the province, with the kind of the basic infrastructure they have been made available in the hospital. "We have to virtually battle for the operation theatre, which remains busy with the general surgeries. Generally, we are given operation theatre once a week for carrying out the routine neurosurgeries," he added.
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