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| No child birth in 14 years at uptown maternity home | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR Nov 8:While the government is planning to set up two maternity hospitals in Jammu and Kashmir to provide better medical facilities to women, a labour hospital, established to ease the pressure of patients at the Valley’s lone gynaecological hospital – Lal Ded, has not recorded a single birth in last fourteen years.
This maternity home, in uptown Sanath Nagar, is bordered by numerous industrial plants and residential houses. Locals say the hospital was initially a dispensary with two doctors, a dentist and paramedics. “People preferred to go to this hospital for treatment,” says a local, Abdul Hamid.
However, the general medical facility was turned into a maternity home after Farooq Abdullah became the chief minister in 1996. Since then, locals say, even basic services that were provided earlier have broken down.
“There is one Assistant surgeon who merely checks antenatal cases and refer to Lal Dad (LD) hospital. It has turned a hang-out point for the hospital employees,” a lady attendant remarks, adding, not a single doctor is available during afternoon.
The facility that is left out is an associated hospital of the Government Medical College, Srinagar, is deserted most of the time as patients now prefer to get treated elsewhere.
Locals say that the officials try their best to transfer the patient to other hospital. “Everybody, therefore, gives priority to get treated at Lal Ded hospital because if they go here they would ultimately transferred there,” says Mushtaq Khan, who remembers the days when patients would throng the now deserted medical facility.
“This is a building of no use. It could have been a successful running maternity home but it has been neglected,” says an elderly local adding that the apathy was ironic considering that the Lad Ded Hospital is overloaded with patients.
Residents say Government should look into working of the hospital. One of them questions: “Is this maternity home literally serving the people for which it had established? Women seeking treatment for gynaecology problems are referred to LD hospital.”
“The employees and doctors of this maternity home never paid attention to their duties but get their salaries on time,” he adds.
But, the employees and doctors of this hospital have a different story to tell.
Employees say maternity home and general OPD attend 32 to 36 patients apart from maternity cases on daily basis. But none gets admitted due to “inadequate facilities.”
They say: “We catered treatment of N1H1 flu last year which affected our daily routine and increased work load. We also provide the facility of antenatal investigation, immunization and ultrasound for the people of vicinity.”
People are not aware about the “presence” of this hospital due to its off route location. “We are trying our best to serve people but their response is passive,” says a lady doctor.
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