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| Govt urged to aid pvt hospitals for setting up units | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 9:
Though mushroom growth in private nursing homes in Jammu and Kashmir during the last 15 years has placed added responsibility on the state Government for monitoring the working in these nursing homes, their establishment has clearly decreased outdoor and indoor patient rush in Government medical colleges and hospitals in the state.
Official sources confirmed that the private nursing homes were playing a key role in mitigating the sufferings of the people in the state. They also accepted that had not these private nursing homes been allowed to be set up the mortality rat in the state would have increased.
Explaining it senior retired and in service doctors said that since the bed capacity in the Government medical colleges and hospitals was too meagre to cater to the growing demand from people needing immediate surgeries and medical treatment such a category of patients receive proper treatment in the nursing homes.
One doctor, who has retired from the Government service last year, said that there are a number of patients who may not be able to bear the expenses on visiting private clinics of doctors get benefited from the nursing homes.
A number of indoor patients in private nursing homes in Jammu and Srinagar were interviewed and everyone said that the Government needs to subsidise some of the expenses incurred by the nursing homes on medical treatment of ailing souls. Once it was done the patient care, including the surgeries, in these private nursing homes can be a less costly affair.
They said in the absence of Government help the rates charged for various surgeries were enormous and beyond the reach of the patients belonging to the middle classes.
The indoor patients also suggested that the Government set up a committee of experts, mainly retired teachers of medical colleges, that would monitor the working, hygiene, standard of equipments in the surgical wards and other patient care facilities.
However, owners of private nursing homes claimed that the patients spend far less on surgeries and other tests in these nursing homes when compared to the nursing homes and private hospitals in the rest of the country.
Meanwhile, the state Government is considering a plan of encouraging top private hospital managements to set up their units in Jammu and Kashmir so that those from the state requiring delicate surgeries were not forced to receive the treatment in the private hospitals in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Chandigarh.
Experts have suggested that those hospitals, including the Fortis, Appollo, Max and Escorts, that have established their credentials as the top medical centres, should get land on lease for very nominal rates for setting up the hospitals or nursing homes.
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