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| CM seeks report on shifting of PET scan site | | Internal politics at SKIMS exposed further | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 7: The "internal politics" which over the years has marred the functioning of the SK Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura here has got further exposed as a high-level team of experts from Atomic Energy Regulatory Body (AERB) has "questioned the unnecessary delay" in installation of the much-need PET-CT Scan facility at the hospital here.
Sources said the experts have termed the "undue delay" in installation of the facility as "criminal offence" while the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti who is also the Chairperson of the SKIMS Governing Body has sought a report into the matter.
After a change of guard at the hospital earlier this year, the administration had stopped work for construction of the PET CT Scan and wanted the facility to be constructed elsewhere thereby delaying commissioning of the diagnostic machines used for early diagnose of cancer.
While the AERB team arrived at the hospital on Tuesday, sources said, the experts were shocked to see that the installation of life saving machines was being delayed due to the "internal politics where one lobby wants to prove the other wrong."
"The visiting experts brushed aside the undue concerns being raised over installation of the PET machines and said it was a tragic state of affairs in Kashmir that the hospital which is supposed to save lives of patients was playing politics over lives of people," said a committee member asking not to be identified.
The experts said "undue concerns were being raised over safety measures with regard to the utility of this radioactive machine." They said the "isotope used in the PET is low grade and thus was not harmful to public."
The visiting experts are understood to have said the senior doctors "involved in radiation safety working in SKIMS were equally competent enough to resolve this issue."
Sources said the experts have recommended to the state government to initiate an inquiry into this "criminal delay in the installation of machines needed to save precious human lives."
"Now question to be asked to SKIMS administration is that as to who is responsible for causing this delay and inconvenience to public and the responsibility needs to be fixed," the official sources said.
The AERB team, the only central regulatory authority for radiation safety in India, visited SKIMS to inspect the site already cleared by it for installation of PET-CT Scan.
Official documents reveal that in April this year the AERB had "granted approval on radiation safety viewpoint… for site, layout and construction of nuclear medicine facility."
But after the retirement of the previous director, the new administration stopped work on the project and started working on a new plan.
Sources said a senior oncologist, mostly holidaying abroad, who had some "ego issues with the other lobby" and thus wanted the site to be relocated. "The engineering wing of the hospital also had some interests in getting a new facility constructed," the sources said. |
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