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| Hospitals crave for infrastructure, ministers enjoy in Kashmir | | Govt caught napping over dengue outbreak in Jammu | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 9: Even as around three dozen cases of dengue have recently been detected in Jammu province, the government has been caught napping over outbreak of the deadly epidemic.
Official sources said administration has not shown any signs of declaring emergency as required to overcome the outbreak. which has put entire north India including the national capital on alert.
Official sources said the hospitals in Jammu are not adequately equipped to face any large scale outbreak of the epidemic while the administration has failed to take measures to get rid of mosquitoes, which cause this ailment in humans.
They said even the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) is not adequately equipped to keep the winter capital free from the deadly mosquitoes than to talk of elsewhere in this neglected region.
Sources said apart from lack of requisite preparedness there's shortage of fogging guns, which are needed to smoke out the mosquitoes.
The hospitals on the other hand have no dedicated wards for treatment of the dengue cases.
This is despite the fact that dengue cases in Jammu are on rise with at least 33 people having tested positive over the past 2 months for the mosquito-borne disease.
Apart from the Jammu city, dengue has also knocked in Udhampur, Sambha, Kathua and Doda districts. Officials said around 331 blood samples have been sent for testing. They said out of 33 dengue cases as tested positive, 16 are from Jammu, 11 from Kathua, 3 from Doda and 2 are from Udhampur. All the patients who are not from Jammu have been referred to the Government Medical College in the winter capital by the doctors.
Even though the Health Department claims to have alerted the hospitals in the region to keep a watch on the patients admitted on a daily basis and create isolation wards to deal with any eventuality, no such preparedness seems to be in place on the ground.
"Our hospital has kept a small portion isolated to treat such cases but actually as per MCI guidelines the hospital needs to have a separate infrastructure for such patients," said a medico working with a Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu.
Officials a basic problem with Jammu region this year remained that no special summer secretariat was kept operational here as the ministers from Jammu preferred to spent time "hassle free in the cool breeze of Kashmir away from heat spewing homeland."
"It is for the first time that the government didn't bother to keep a summer secretariat in Jammu, where a minister would otherwise remain stationed to monitor situation and to take requisite measures. This time the BJP ministers truly back stabbed the people of Jammu as they all enjoyed in Srinagar, I can tell this out of logic," said a senior official in Civil Secretariat Srinagar pleading anonymity.
He said as per tradition in case of such crises the people would contact summer secretariat to seek remedial measures to their problems. |
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