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| SKIMS run JVC hospital short of Para-medical staff, infrastructure | | Gynae ward without toilet from last 16 years | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 24: The Sher-e- Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences run JVC hospital is grappling with a severe dearth of nurses, Para-medical staff, and this shortage was badly affecting health services.
The shocking fact is that the Gynae ward of the hospital is without toilets from last 16 years.
Sources in the hospital revealed to Early Times that the shortage can be ascertained from the fact that one nurse is left to take care of around 20 patients in this SKIMS run JVC Bemina hospital. "I can say that like Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, situation is pathetic in this Bemina Hospital," one of the insider said.
Sources said that Government's failure to recruit enough nurses at this hospital is not only affecting patient care, but is also leading many graduate students to leave the state in search of career options elsewhere in the country and even overseas.
The authorities in this hospital admitted that the nursing staff is working even without the weekly holiday that they are due for.
"I can tell you that nurses are under a huge burden so they could not guarantee safe care for the patients," one of the senior doctors in the JVC hospital said.
One of the nurses insisted not to be named said that they are really understaffed and exhausted at the end of their shift. "There should be at least one nurse for every eight patients and one for every four if dedicated care is required," the nurse attending patient at gynae ward told this Early Times reporter.
Opened amid much fanfare with an aim to provide better medicare to the people of valley, sources said that non-serious attitude of the SKIMS Soura management has brought the hospital virtually to the brink of closure.
Inaugurated in 2000, the Bemina hospital according to insiders besides being under-staffed and without adequate infrastructure, sans even toilets in the major wards. "You will be shocked to know that the only Gynae ward (8) is without toilets from last 16 years," one of the paramedical staffer told Early Times.
The insiders informed that there is so dearth of staff that the OPDs are without peons as a result there's chaos and confusion with patients jostling and many a time engaging in brawls with each other for their turn. "Presently, there are only around 300 paramedical staff, including technicians, nurses and sweepers to cater to daily rush of over3000 patients. Number of staff is same what it was seven years ago. Posts were created but they were not advertised," they said.
Meanwhile sources in the health department said that the other government hospitals across the state were also facing an acute shortage of, Par-medical staff.
The top officials of the health department insisting not to be named said that the worst affected are major city hospitals and District hospitals where a huge number of people seek care and where the shortage of nurses can affect the daily activities right from the running of outpatient clinics to theatre services and inpatient care in wards.
However one of the government officials said that the government is making every effort to overcome the deficiency of paramedics. |
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