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| PIL regarding inadequate facilities for cancer patients in J&K | | HC directs commissioner health to file affidavit | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 11: In a PIL, that highlights inadequate facilities for cancer patients in the state's hospitals, a high court division bench of Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice Janak Raj Kotwal today issued a notice to the health commissioner, directing him to file an affidavit in this regard. The PIL states that nearly 56,000 cancer patients in J&K are required to be given specific treatment and submitted that whereas in both the Medical Colleges at Jammu and Srinagar, there is a department of Oncology, it sans the requisite faculty as also the medical infrastructure and equipments which are required for making the said department functional.
It has been submitted that basic machinery in the nature of PET Scan Machine, which is used for detecting the malaise of cancer at the very inception, is not available in either of the Medical Colleges at Jammu and Srinagar. Besides this, it has been urged by the petitioner that the department lacks the basic medicines, which are required to treat cancer patients and are so expensive as fall beyond the means of an ordinary person. Denial of such medicines and treatment to patients suffering from cancer is, thus, stated to be in violation of Article 21 of the Constitution of India.
After hearing the issue in length, thye bench issuedd notice to health commissioner returnable within one week and directed that he shall file an affidavit before this court regarding the assertions noticed by this Court hereinabove. He shall reflect in the affidavit details as regards the faculty and other support staff in the department of Oncology, the qualifications of the faculty, faculty members lacking the requisite qualifications as per MCI Rules and Regulations and also as per Rules framed by the state prescribing qualifications for such faculty members, machinery provided in the department of Oncology and the details of machinery which ought to be provided in the department to make it meaningfully and substantially functional, medicines and treatment which are provided to patients as also details of such medicines and treatment which ought to be provided but have not been so provided, Medicines and treatment provided free as also those which are made chargeable, Schemes which can be availed by poor patients to get free treatment and medicines and Steps proposed and taken with a view to address the issues highlighted.
In the petition petitioner submitted that there are two Medical Colleges in Jammu, one Medical College in Srinagar and a Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences at Srinagar. There is no PET scan machine at least in Jammu. The basic physician, who diagnosis and treats the cancer patients is known as an Oncologist. The term Oncologist means a Doctor who possesses MBBS Degree and thereafter MD in Medicine and thereafter at least a DM Oncology. There is no Oncologist with these qualifications in Medical College Jammu or in Multi Specialty Hospital at Jammu. Similarly, no specialist with these qualifications available in the Private Medical College at Jammu. In other words, there is no facility of either diagnosis or of treatment of cancer at least in Jammu province. (JNF) |
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