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| Jammu Super-speciality: Hospital or ticking time bomb | | |
Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 9: Unnecessary haste in shifting critical departments to the then under-construction Jammu Super-speciality Hospital has now virtually turned the hospital into a tickling time-bomb where life of patients remains at risk all the times.
In a recent incident which took place on July 6; 108 batteries of CT scan machine caught fire and were destroyed completely. After the CT scan room of the hospital caught fire due to short circuit, smoke got filled in all the wards, forcing the hospital administration to evacuate critically ill patients to nearby Bakshi Nagar hospital. Not only this, quit a good number of ailing patients were seen strolling in the lawns of the super-speciality hospital.
Most had been gripped with fear of a major catastrophe while several others refused to return to the hospital. The hospital now has to wait for CPWD to repair or replace batteries for making the CT scan machine functional. Sources said that the Minister for Health and Medical Education directed Principal Government Medical College Jammu Dr. Ghanshyam and Super Specialty Hospital administration to approach executing agency Central Public Works Department (CPWD) for taking over the hospital building officially after ensuring all allied services were provided.
Prior to this, sources said that batteries had exploded outside the office of Superintendent Government Medical College (GMC). They added that the same had been kept lying outside the office of the superintendent without taking safety measures. Sources further said that even this failed to bring the super-speciality hospital administration out of the deep slumber. They neither ordered a criminal inquiry nor lodged any FIR against the construction company.
The lift in the super-speciality hospital too has started behaving erratically, said a staff member. He added that a major accident cannot be ruled out if the department does not wake-up. But things have not changed much. Moreover, Minister Choudhary Lal Singh neither ordered a probe into the overall functioning of the Super-speciality hospital nor sought to inquire as to why ex-Minister for Health and Medical Education Taj Mohiuddin had forced the then administration of Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu to shift several critical care departments to the super-speciality hospital when the same was under-construction and incomplete.
It needs to be mentioned here that ex-Minister Taj Mohiuddin had forced GMC to make super-speciality hospital. When the senior doctors and other faculty members refused, insiders maintain that Taj secured the services of doctors engaged under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) for making super-speciality functional. They added that Taj neither sought a critical appraisal nor evaluation of the facilities in the super-speciality hospital but went ahead with the shifting of departments.
He neither enquired about the state of the machinery nor sought details about the back-up for the same. Doctors were forced to shift over to super-speciality hospital from GMC overnight, said the sources. They added that since then, things have been going from bad to worse with no hope in sight of some change in the course. Sources disclosed that if the government does not order a probe, day is not far when some major incident would consume several precious lives. |
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