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| DH Kishtwar faces shortage of ambulances amid growing COVID crisis | | |  ASIF IQBAL NAIK
EARLY TIMES REPORT
KISHTWAR, May 2: As the COVID crisis goes bigger and bigger with each passing day, the District Hospital (DH) Kishtwar is facing acute shortage of ambulances as well as staff to run these vehicles.
According to reports, a pregnant lady from Thathri was brought to District Hospital Kishtwar where she unfortunately delivered a dead baby yesterday and while for transporting her back to home, the hospital administration faced shortage of ambulances since all the vehicles and the drivers engaged with them were out of city or district as such the management was unable to transport the patient back to her home.
Speaking to Early Times, the husband of the lady informed that he unfortunately lost the child at the hospital blaming destiny as well as uncertainty in the hospital through which he and his family had undergone. He said that the hospital staff offered them the vehicle in the wee hours of the morning and asked them to get ready by 7 am as the vehicle was scheduled to go to Doda. “I left the hospital without getting a discharge certificate of my wife from the hospital and without consulting the doctors before leaving,” said the husband.
He said that later they approached the local Ababeel NGO unit at Kishtwar who came forward with the help. “We received a call and hence we arrived at hospital with our own ambulance and shifted the patient back to her home,” said Burhan Mir, volunteer at NGO Ababeel.
Meanwhile, a senior health official said that all the ambulances were out of station and the patient didn’t want to wait, adding that though they have an ambulance stationed at the hospital but due to non-availability of the driver they failed to put the vehicle into service.
The official said that there is a lot of pressure on District Hospital Kishtwar since majority of the health institutions functioning in rural areas of the district lack proper infrastructure and staff forcing the people to rush towards District Hospital, putting an extra burden on this prime health institution of the district.
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