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| Political workers stall shifting of Anantnag's Maternity hospital | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Aug 19: Even as the fire and emergency services department has declared the building housing the south Kashmir's sole maternity and child care hospital (MCH) Anantnag as totally unsafe,
the government continues to be reluctant in shifting the hospital despite availability of the alternative.
Locals allege that few politically influential medicates and shopkeepers have managed to get the shifting stalled for their monetary interests.
The maternity hospital is located in congested Sherbag locality of the town causing inconvenience to the patients in reaching the hospital. Most often the expecting mothers needing immediate care get stuck in
traffic jams forcing the attendants to carry them on shoulders up to the hospital. The space crunch inside the hospital is such that the labor and post operative wards having the capacity of 8 beds is stuffed 20 beds. The fire and emergency service officials last after conducting the safety
audit of the hospital building declared it totally unsafe. They had recommended the immediate shifting of the hospital to some safer place or construction of the new building block. Though
the chief medical officer, Anantnag, few months ago had started the process of shifting but sources said, some medicates and shopkeepers managed to halt the move by using their political influence. "CMO had yet shifted only the operation theatre but such was the political pressure that he had to shift back the theatre overnight," they said. An official of the health department said that a handful of
shopkeepers and medicates running their shops outside the hospital for their monetary benefits don't want the hospital be shifted. "Since they happen to be the workers of ruling PDP and that is why the
party new face of the party personally intervened and ensured that the hospital is shifted back overnight. One wonders how low these politicians can stop for few votes," the official said adding the then medical superintendent of the hospital, who is also the favorite of Muftis also supported the selfish medicates for his worst interests. A local, Mumtaz Ahmad, questioned the wisdom and arrogance of the
authorities of playing with the lives of both the mothers and their newborns. "This is the height of political arrogance that despite a spacious building available for the smooth functioning of the hospital
you don't risk the lives of patients by not allowing the shifting of the hospital. If the health minister claims to bring revolution in the health sector why is he silent over this serious issue," Ahmad said.
MoS Health Asiya Naqash admitted that the hospital lacks adequate safe, however expressed ingournace about the shifting of the hospital. "I am not aware about the shifting of the hospital when actually it was shifted! All I know is that the situation in the hospital is grim," she said. |
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