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| Are Jammu hospitals equipped enough to tackle health crisis? | | Coronavirus scare | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 7: Amid the ongoing Coronavirus scare looming large in Jammu with region’s schools shit till March 31, there are mounting concerns over whether there are enough preparations on ground to tackle with the deadly virus.
There are reports coming to fore that the medical staff needed in case a medical emergency is declared is missing from ground and the situation could turn calamitous in case of any eventuality. “You need a proper medical infrastructure to deal with the disease. As the situation at present is under control and there is nothing to panic about but in case the situation gets out of control, the scene is going to be troubling as Jammu’s hospitals are reeling under serious staff scarcity,” says an official of the health department.
Reports inform that the sanctioned strength of the staff at GMC Jammu is 5222 and that the posts lying vacant since years are 1847 in number.
The faculty posts sanctioned are 391 and out of that number mere 228 have been filled and 163 are lying vacant. The staff strength sanctioned under the category of ‘Other Gazetted’ is 459. This number pertinently was approved by the government to get filled. However, till date, there are 19 posts which haven’t been filled.
The approved Para-medical staff strength sanctioned is 933. Out of 933, there are 423 such posts that haven’t been filled.
In Ministerial staff category, the sanctioned strength is 284. There are 136 posts of such nature lying vacant with no action being taken to fill these posts that otherwise would have ensured betterment in the services being provided to common people by the government.
Furthermore, there are 535 posts of nursing staff that haven’t been filled. These posts are vacant in GMC. The sanctioned strength of the nursing staff at the health institute is 1475. However, there were mere 940 posts filled while leaving 535 posts of such nature vacant. The reason behind such an action continues to remain a mystery.
In Class-IV category, there are 1268 posts sanctioned. However, here aswell, there were mere 815 filed and 453 left vacant by the government.
Under ‘Safai Wala’ category, there are 412 sanctioned posts but here again, mere 294 have been filled and 118 are lying vacant.
Such a blatant non-serious approach of the state authorities towards the Jammu region of the state has proved just one thing; there is no stone being left unturned to make the region crave for the official attention in all fields.
Furthermore, as per the documents, there are no less than 1867 posts of medical staff lying vacant in Government Medical College Jammu with the dispensation acting as a mute spectator with inaction in this regard remains in vogue.
Early Times has been in the forefront highlighting how in case of any eventuality, the issue of staff paucity can lead to severe health crises in Jammu. Meanwhile, with authorities assuring people that there is nothing to feel paranoid about, one can only hope that the jolt would awake the helmsmen from slumber and they make measures that were desperately needed to be taken years ago to equip the hospitals with required infrastructure. |
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