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| SKIMS earns 12 Cr annually from patients, spends nothing on hospital | | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 18: Rubbing salt into peoples' wounds is the Sher-e-Kashmir Medical Institute (SKIMS) in Srinagar which, as per reports, is not even spending a single penny out of the plethora of revenue collected from patients for hospital's welfare.
Sources confirmed to Early Times that the hospital has a daily income of rupees 3 to 3.5 lakh, collected from patients across Kashmir valley. The revenue is collected in the form of admission tickets, fee for routine test reports, ECG, X ray and other related entities.
Officials, while pleading anonymity divulged that per month apart from the government funds, the SKIMS has revenue of rupees one crore, collected from poor patients which are admitted in hospital due to various ailments. Per year, the revenue turns out to be a whooping amount of 12 crore rupees. Out of such a large amount, not a single percent is spent on peoples' or hospital's welfare. There has been so far no serious audit done to make the hospital authorities accountable over such a burning issue.
Sources in the hospital said so far the expenditure made out of these revenues has not been made public, leaving the people guessing and fuming over such a bizarre official apathy.
Reports informed that so far the SKIMS authorities have spent its own revenue on conduction of the seminars while leaving the maintenance of the hospital in lurch. One could ask the hospital authorities that how could 12 crore rupees being spent on seminars only in which the lavish services are provided to doctors who read out their papers before other medicos.
People while crying foul over the claims of the government that it spends crores over the sanitation and patients care, said that the shabby condition of wards in the hospital and the pathetic treatment given to the patients at the causality block is enough to prick the balloon government claims. "There are not beds available in the casualty and emergency block. The higher authorities have so far undermined the matter and have made people continue to suffer. You can see the patients lying on the floor with no to listen to their woes. Where all the money goes is, continues to be the mystery," says one of the employees. He added that the hefty amounts collected from patients have so far not been spent for the development of the hospital.
If sources are to be believed the authorities in SKIMS has shown the expenditure of more around 4 crore rupees on the purchase of the beds for a particular ward. However, it later came to fore that no such ward is existent in the hospital. The authorities actually had shown the expenditure to the ward that only existed in papers. As the incident got unearthed, there has been no probe, no inquiry ordered over this open embezzlement.
Also during the ravaging floods of the September last year, SKIMS has not conducted even a single medical camp for the flood victims, despite having the staff strength of eight thousand employees. |
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