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Defunct lifts of GMC Seriously ill forced to climb stairs 9/8/2015 11:52:03 PM Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 8: Owing to lack of coordination between administration of Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu and its Mechanical Wing, the lifts of the hospital are non-functional for last 15 days forcing patients and their attendants to use either stairs or the ramp which is not advisable for many of them, particularly the critically sick patients. Sources at GMC hospital Jammu said that the administration of hospital was sent a proposal to replace these old lifts with the new ones and one lift has been replaced but other was left abandoned. They further said that two lifts were installed in the GMC and Hospital Jammu to take the patients to their respective wards around a decade back but at present both lifts are out of order for last 15 days. "One lift was already out of order for last one month, now second lift of the hospital was also not functioning but neither the hospital administration nor officials of Mechanical wing bother to fix the problems, " they claimed adding that sometimes lifts become defunct putting the life of patients to grave risk. An attendant of patient, Ram Lal from Kathua said that lifts remain closed during the night and the patients, who have been shifted from the Emergency Ward to any other wards of hospital, have to face lots of inconvenience and they have to choose stairs or ramp path which is risky. Another attendant of patient said people visit the hospitals are mostly under stress and always undergone through tension due to suffering of their dear ones- and when they see non-functional lifts in the hospital, the people and the patients shifted to top floors of the hospital face lot of inconvenience, particularly while going to deliver samples for test or for the collection of reports. Medical Superintendent of GMC Hospital Jammu Dr Ravinder Rattan Paul couldn't be contacted despite repeated attempts.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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