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| Female patients uncomfortable with male ECG technicians in GMCH | | | Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 19: Many female patients are uncomfortable with the male technicians who perform ECG and other tests.
Since the start of this diagnostic facility only male technicians of Government Medical College (GMC) and Hospital Jammu have been deputed to conduct Electro-cardio-gram (ECG) tests be it male or the female which often put the male technicians cornered while dealing some old aged female patients.
Due to lack of female technicians in this unit of radio diagnostic department, the female patients are subjected to discomfort and the authorities have never bothered to address the issue.
The female patients for last many years are feeling it but they can't help it due to root cause i.e. shortage of Female Technicians. However, the Jammu and Kashmir Health and Medical Education Department is least bother in cases of female patients' right.
Doctors in GMC Hospital Jammu informed Early Times on the condition of anonymity that according to procedures such as medical examination, USG (Ultrasonography), Echocardiography, X-ray, CT scan, Physiotherapy, ECG (Electrocardiography), EEG (Electroencephalography) and others should not be carried out without the presence of a female staff or patient's attendant, or another female patient, unless it is an emergency.
"The matter was taken up by female patients and their attendants numbers of times with concern authorities," they said and lamented that owing to indifferent attitude of State HME Department as well as Hospital Administration nothing has been done in this regard."
According to official details, there are only two female technicians, one is in B-1 Block of ECG section and other is in Emergency Block ECG section of GMC Hospital Jammu.
"A large numbers of female patients visit the GMC Hospital and Super-Speciality Hospital Jammu daily, "officials of the hospital told and said that over 450 to 500 ECG tests are conducted in both hospitals daily, about 30 percent of which on female patients but they are subjected to feel 'discomfort' but they undergo the test because of the necessity and their own healthcare.
"In Emergency ward and other wards above 300 ECGs are conducted daily. A majority of the patients happen to be females but most of the tests are conducted by the male technicians," doctors said. It observed that most of times, female technicians remain absent from emergencies. When contacted, the Medical Superintendent Dr Ravinder Rattan Pal admitted that there is shortage of female technicians. He, however, claimed that either tests of female conduct by female technicians or in the presence of female attendants in the hospital. |
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