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| Private operators-administrative nexus ruling roost at GMCH Jammu | | None among 12 sanctioned ambulances for emergency operative | | K Koushal
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 11: While the healthy services in Jammu frequently and almost always remain under the scanner for being the most erratic and non-serious business, the addition to its other woes are manifold, non-availability of ambulances being one among them.
The emergency transportation services at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Jammu has been damaged by ill maintenance leading it to total collapse.
As per the administrative norms, 12 ambulances on duty have to be on standby alert for ferrying patients from their homes to Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) or vice-versa, but the irony is that only one ambulance is seen available on the spot which too remains aberrantly occupied commuting the relatives and family members of the drivers or the doctors while the remaining eleven either remain defunct or are given to understand to be 'out of order'. Also the more surprising factor to this fact is that there are six drivers on rotational basis remains waiting on the one ambulance only.
Deputy Medical Superintendent GMCH Wasiq Rasool is the in charge of these ambulances.
Sources privy to GMCH have an astonishing fact to reveal over the nexus nurturing in the hospital where many private ambulances are seen lined outside the hospital premises while the desperate kiths of the patients are left high and dry and have to seek the services of private ambulances while shelling astronomical money.
"Deputy Medical Superintendent himself is at the helm of affairs who care two hoots for such mess in the hospital while the dead ones of the near and dears after being denied the services have to hire the private ambulances in the hour of distress," said the sources.
It s pertinently to mention here that these twelve ambulances have to be kept at the disposal of the emergency wing of GMCH which is the most essential services,
"In the recent wake of border firing at Arnia and allied villages from where the injured flocked to the hospital for health care were left unattended after providing them health care and they had to leave the hospital on their own expenses," said Manohar Lal , a relative of the border firing victim who had to undergo the testing times recently when his brother was admitted to hospital for treatment and later shown doors to arrange conveyance back home on his own expense.
Most of the ambulances are windows and doors less. Some without the tyres or even without the chassis are lying defunct with GMCH authorities having turned a blind eye leaving the patients to suffer.
Though certain NGOs and other allied organizations are supposed to have provided ambulances to GMCH in order to serve patients in emergency situations, but the ground reality under this fact is that it is only the private operators and administrative nexus that are operating to mint huge sums of money.
The apparent testimony to the reality check on this issue can be gauged whenever a a VVIP s on the move as well maintained ambulance follows his cavalcade, but for a dead at GMCH, Jammu, there is none available.
A call to Deputy medical superintendent GMCH, Jammu proved futile as he did not care to take the call. |
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