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| Cancer cases on rise in Jammu | | Govt sleeps on AIIMS establishment | |
Early Times Report
srinagar, June 4: Life-consuming cancer has been on rise in Jammu while the coalition government continues to sleep over the much-awaited establishment of AIIMS in the winter capital region.
The revelation of rise in cancer cases in Jammu is not any hearsay but formally confirmed by the state government on the floor of the House.
Minister for Health and Medical Education, Bali Bhagat, in the ongoing budget session in Legislative Council said the number of cancer cases in Jammu district alone have risen from 597 to 853 between 2011 and 2015.
The Minister in a written reply to Peoples Democratic Party MLC, Firdous Tak, said males have been found affected by lung, throat, gastro-internal and lymphoma cancers while as cervical, breast, throat, gastro-internal and lung cancers were more common among women.
The government figures have shown an increased trend of cancer patients in all the districts of JK state.
While Kashmir already has a super-specialty facility, the SKIMS Soura here to treat such cases, Jammu continues to wait for any such facility.
On the other hand, the promise of the central government to establish AIIMS in Jammu province continues to be a promise. Over a year on, since the Bharatiya Janta Party assured that AIIMS would be established in Jammu there has been no breakthrough.
This is despite the fact that in the 2014 Assembly elections, the people of Jammu voted BJP to power in the state. But since the day BJP came to power, its ministers and other MLAs have allegedly failed to plead the cause of Jammu region.
It was in August last year that the government formally announced that the hospital would be constructed.
The same month the Jammu district administration identified three sites for establishment of AIIMS and all the relevant papers were prepared by the Divisional Commissioner Jammu for submission before the Union Health Ministry.
As per the sources, 200 acres of land as desired by the Union Health Ministry was identified in Kot Bhalwal and Sunjwan-Raika area.
Officials said that exact "geographical coordinates of all the locations, classification of land, details of road connectivity from National Highway, Railway Station and Airport were also provided in the report."
On August 4, 2015, following a major mass movement in Jammu, the Union Joint Secretary had asked Secretary, Health and Medical Education Department of State Government to identify land measuring approximately 200 acres each in Jammu and Kashmir regions.
Though since then the Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the state atleast twice and promised development, even laying of foundation stone is awaited. |
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