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| Jammu Medical College in a shambles | | Fraud On Jammu | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sep 16: The BJP-led NDA regime took a momentous decision to raise the level of the worthless Jammu Medical College to the status of All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). BJP leader and Union Minister Sushma Swaraj came all the way from New Delhi to Jammu to lay the foundation stone. The people of Jammu, unlike the people of Kashmir who had the privilege of having a separate medical college and a separate super specialty hospital - Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) - and Lal Ded Hospital for women, were then very happy. They felt, and rightly so, that they would get medical facilities similar to the ones available with the AIIMS and SKIMS. Their happiness was misplaced and their hope just a hope.
Visit the Jammu Medical College and see for yourself the state of affairs in this college the people of Jammu got after years of a sustained struggle. It's just a college in name. It is ill-equipped, under-staffed and ill-managed for reasons obvious reasons. The teachers, who otherwise appear quite dedicated, barring a few, have no time whatever at their disposal to take their classes. For, this is more a hospital than a college. The basic objective of the Jammu Medical College was teaching, and not essentially treating and looking after patients. Since it has turned out to be an hospital, instead of a college meant for imparting instructions in medical sciences, a vast majority of doctors whose strength is also inadequate have been left with no other option but to skip class work and devote most of their time to diagnosing the patients' ailment and attending to their sufferings. They are over-burdened because everyone in the Jammu province rushes to this college for treatment as bulk of the Jammu population just can't afford to go to private clinics and hospitals because they are too expensive.
It's not just that the number of doctors in the Jammu Medical College is inadequate. The college doesn't have the required infrastructure. Trained faculty is an essential requirement but what is also needed is an environment in which they could do justice to their noble profession. And, that environment is lacking. It is the nurses and technical staff that form the backbone of the institution but their number, like the number of teachers, is inadequate to the extent that one nurse has to look after 50 to 60 patients, sometimes even more at a time. This inadequacy adds to the sufferings of the patients as one nurse just can't cope with the work. This inadequacy also sometimes results in scuffles and heated exchanges with the poor and helpless but highly compassionate nurses just not in a position to cater to the immediate needs of the patients. It is the nurses and not the doctors who attend the patients and do what the doctors would require them to do and very rightly.
Notwithstanding the inadequate strength of doctors, who are to teach students and examine hundreds of patients everyday, the minister and the government handling the nation-building health department for reasons best known to them not only want to increase the number of seats in this medical college but also make the authorities in this college to train those not in anyway connected with the state's medical services. Leave aside the fact that the infrastructure has remained almost the same as it was at the time when the Jammu Medical College was established. When the Jammu Medical College was established, those controlling the college had been given to understand that they would impart instructions only at MBBS level. What is the position today? The position is: The teachers in the Jammu Medical College are imparting instructions at MBBS level, MD and MS levels, besides guiding research students. In other words, they are doing something that is not humanly possible. The result is that the Jammu Medical College produces half-baked doctors and half-baked nurses. The pathetic story of the Jammu Medical College doesn't end here. The story of this premier institution is much pathetic. No surgeon worth his/her name would like to operate more than two patients, but here are surgeons who would be required to conduct as many operations as possible in one day. One can very easily imagine what has been happening.
The authorities in the Medical College purchased vital equipments years ago from particular companies, but they could not be used for the benefits of patients because of the inadequacies in staff and infrastructure. The result is that the guarantee and warranty period is over. This is the state of affairs in the Jammu Medical College. The worst aspect of the whole situation is the failure of the political class. It doesn't pay any attention to what is the state of affairs in the Jammu Medical College. |
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