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| Jammu faces a big challenge | | | Experts have sounded an alert that densely populated areas in Jammu can become COVID-19 hotspots as the houses in old city are very close to each other.
They have warned about the situation taking an ugly turn as it took in densely populated areas at Dharavi in Mumbai and slum areas in New Delhi.
Authorities will have to take specific steps to ensure that people don’t die or want for beds and other facilities in the hospitals as there is every possibility that the number of cases will increase in coming days.
In Kashmir people have got a health facility like SKIMS Soura and they can rush there but in Jammu there is no such health facility as SKIMS.
During the past 70-years the Kashmir centric rulers, who ruled J&K, never made any attempt to establish a health facility like SKIMS. Their only aim was to ensure that Kashmir gets all the facilities. People of Jammu are feeling the pinch as the hospitals in the area are too small to accommodate the huge rush of patients.
At present the authorities need to put their act together and come up with a plan to accommodate the patients, whose number is all set to increase in coming days. The buildings that can be turned into the COVID centers need to be identified and set up on the war footing basis.
The second wave of COVID has intensified and the peak is yet to come. The administration in Jammu region should put all the measures in place forthwith as the pandemic is raging. The outbreak of COVID-19 has exposed the health structure in Jammu region to a hilt and it should serve as an eye opener for the helmsmen. The construction of AIIMS at Samba needs to be expedited. Jammu needs this facility desperately.
At present the only viable solution is to come up with temporary sets up on the pattern of other states and union territories. The government needs to ensure that there is enough stock of oxygen and people don’t die gasping for breath.
In recent days demand for oxygen has shot up in Jammu region.
Authorities are claiming that they have got enough stock of the oxygen cylinders. One hopes that claims don’t fall flat when the need arises.
During the past few days many oxygen plants have been made functional in Kashmir, one hopes in Jammu too more oxygen plants will be set up to handle the crisis that may emerge. |
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