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| Principal Government Dental College Srinagar makes fool of health minister Lal Singh | | Invites him to inaugurate multi-level parking, basic facilities missing at hospital | |  Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 18: Principal Government Dental College (GDC) Srinagar, Dr. Riyaz Farooq has decided to adopt a unique way of impressing the Minister for Health and Medical Education, Lal Singh. The minister is all set to inaugurate the multi-level parking at GDC Srinagar despite the fact that basic facilities are missing at the college.
Early Times has learnt from reliable sources that in the coming days the health minister is going to inaugurate the multi-level parking. The tentative date for the inauguration is August 20, but it may be postponed by a day or two. The funds meant for the development of GDC Srinagar have been diverted to construct the multi-level parking.
"Orthopentogram (OPG) machine was badly hit by the devastating flood of September 2014. Following this funds under Disaster Management programme were allocated to Government Medical College, Srinagar and GDC Srinagar. Although, the funds were properly utilized at GMC Srinagar the same was not case with GDC Srinagar where the system of checks and balances was not followed," said sources.
Sources said that money meant for carrying out repairs of OPG machine were not utilized and the authorities also failed to procure the new machine for the betterment of patients. They said the patients are suffering like anything and they have to go to the market for doing things that could have been done at the GDC Srinagar.
"In all the disciplines of the college at least 35-40 X-rays are needed to be carried out on a given a day. Since the OPG machine is lying defunct the patients have to move outside for carrying out the X-ray. In the market it costs them Rs. 600 to carry out the X-ray while as same would have been done at cheap rate in the college where all the dental facilities should have been available," said sources.
Sources said that the funds meant for procurement of the new OPG machine or carrying out repairs of the old machine have been used for setting up multi-level parking at GDC Srinagar. They said the concept of multi-level parking is more suited to the shopping malls or hotels but not for a college and its associated hospital.
"The GDC Srinagar nowadays gives the look of a grand hotel or a sprawling shopping mall. The basic facilities are missing at the hospital and the Principal has decided to befool the health minister by projecting himself as great administrator with the construction of multi-level parking. The health minister should look into all these aspects so that punitive action is taken against the Principal," said sources.
The sources said that such is the condition of the hospital that even the basic medical investigations are not being carried out there as the facility is altogether missing. There are no injections for the patients and the medicines are also out of stock thus pushing patients to the wall, said sources.
"In a dental college as well as hospital crown and bridge facilities are very important and they hold key to the success of a dental college. Both these important aspects are missing as the Principal is just busy to impress the health minister by constructing the multi-level parking. The health minister and above all chief minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed should look into this so that the Principal is shown the door," said sources.
It would be in place to mention here that an FIR already stands registered against Dr. Riyaz Farooq after he purchased Orthopos dental machine at exorbitant rates for GDC Srinagar. The file regarding sanction for prosecution against him is pending and hopefully this time it would be approved so that the Principal GDC Srinagar is shown 'exit'. It is expected that his name figures in the list of officials who are all set to be shown door by the present coalition government. |
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