| 4 yrs on, trauma hospital at Chowki Chowra awaits completion | | | Bijay Charak
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 5: Four years on, the Trauma Hospital at Chowki Chowra awaits completion. The delay has cost many a precious life. The trauma patients are transferred to Akhnoor Hospital and GMC Hospital Jammu many of whom die in transit.
Sources in Health Department told Early Times that the construction work of double storey building Accidental Hospital Chowki Chowra of district Jammu was started in June 2010 at an estimated cost of Rs. 15.3 crore.
The project had to be completed by December 2013.
"The work on the hospital is going on at a snail's pace with only two floors complete at the moment and the work PCC retaining wall on road side, CGI sheet roofing, fixing of vetrified tile in ground floor and Ist floor is in progress", sources said.
Pleading anonymity, a medico said that the establishment of Chowki Chowra accidental hospital would be of crucial help to trauma patients of border areas. "This time we see all the patients being referred to those already burden hospitals such as Sub district hospital Akhnoor or GMC&H, If we have a level two or level three trauma centre in Chowki Chowra, it would minimize trauma casualties," the medico said.
He, however, said the government must put in place requisite infrastructure and only trauma specialists in the centre once it comes up. "This time the accidental hospital in other parts of district Jammu, Udhampur, Poonch have general staff with minimal trauma infrastructure. You need trauma specialists to handle trauma cases if you really mean business," he said and added that otherwise having such centres won't serve any purpose.
However, repeated call to Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation, Deputy General Manager, Jammu didn't pick up the call. |
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