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Early times Report
Jammu, Jun 2 : Instead of providing medicare to people in Jammu and Kashmir the entire healthcare system in the state is ailing.The system has been ailing for the last several decades and the problem of sickness in the hospitals,two medical colleges besides the Institute of Medical sciences at Soura in Srinagar has touched a new high during the last three years' of the National Conference led Government.
The level of ailing health system would have gone unnoticed had not over 480 infants died in the G.B.Pant hospital in Srinagar during the last five months and about 2700 death of infants in the Jammu hospital during the last three years.What is distressing is the way infants continue to die in the G.B.Pant hospital despite public uproar and inspite of Government's commitment on improving the system and the equipments.
And a preliminary inquiry has revealed that lack of sanitation,absence of life saving equipment,including ventillators and drugs and wide ratio between indoor patients and the doctors have contributed to the high mortality rate of infants in these two hospitals.
Again it is the result of peoples' uproar that the growing mortality rate of infants received top focus.If one takes into account the mortality rate in other hospitals and medical colleges besides the institute of Medical Sciences one would have no other alternative but to shed a tear or two over the miserable plight of indoor and outdoor patients in the hospitals and medical colleges despite the fact that these very health institutions have been receiving suffficient financial support from the state and the central Governments.It is on the basis of the liberal financial support from the Government that the two medical colleges,major hospitals besides the Institute of Medical Sciences have been in a position to purchase and procure latest gadgets needed for diagnosis and surgery.
Unfortunately these devices and gadgets, including ultra sound machines and X-ray plants, have either turned into junks because of failure on the part of the concerned agencies to rectify the faults and on account of the inability of the Government in replacing the obsolete and faulty machines required for diagnosis and surgery.In various hospitals these latest equipments and machines have remained non-functional because of lack of hands that run these machines.
As has been the case with other projects, schemes connected with upgrading healtth care system and the basic infrastructure in the hospitals and the medical colleges have not been completed within the stipulated time.Those who are sceptical about it should watch the fate of the two super speciality hospitals being built in Jammu and Srinagar.The construction and opening of the two hospitals have been delayed by two to three years.The state can afford to have road network completed after some delays but such delays cannot and should not be tolerated in the health sector.
Both the state and the central Governments have made available several hundred crores of rupees for upgrading healthcare system in hospitals,Primary health centres,medical colleges and the institute but funds have either been misappropriated or underutilised or having gone waste because of paucity of doctors,paramedical staff,including the nurses.One can say delay in execution of projects and schemes,dealy in appointing doctors and paramedical staff,delay in purchasing and procuring gadgets needed for diagnosis and surgery contribute to the grim picture in the hospitals and medical colleges.For execution of building plans the Government should follow Ghulam Nabi Azad's advice.Azad has been campaigning in favour of introducing double and even triple shifts for work execution.The entire medicare and healthcare system in Jammu and Kashmir calls for revolutionary corrective measures so that these hospitals and medical colleges do not remain centres for spurious drugs and obsolete equipments.
What is astonishing is the way the state Government and the High Court have taken cognisance of the high rate of infant mortality in Srinagar hospital while a major tragedy in Jammu hospital where 70 infants die per day has gone unnoticed.Is it a case of regional discrimination ?Let the Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,clarify it.(eom)
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