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| Ventilators at DH are unused due to lack of staff | | | Ashwani Sharma
Early Times Report
Udhampur, May 30: The ventilators at District Hospital Udhampur are lying unused due to lack of staff technically trained in handling such devices.
Sources in the hospital informed that there is acute shortage of essential staff in the hospital where there are only three anesthesia doctors who managed Covid as well as other patients helping in operation theatres are there while the requirement is of so more and there are no trained nurses to work on the ventilators.
While the District Hospital Udhampur already had four ventilators of its own besides , the Centre has given additional 35 new ventilators about one year ago to the medical institution worth About 1.5 crore to from Prime Minister Relief Funds for fighting covid -19 out of which only two are non invasive ventilator are functional and others turned useless as there is no trained professional with the hospital to operate and maintain these invasive ventilation vital life saving machines means one year completed but the hospital administration failed to provided trained staff to runs.
Sources said that hospital also suffers from the shortage of doctors and adding that so far Dr Vinod, Dr Deepak, Dr Balvinder and few others including the paramedical staff are managing the show by working day and night and try to give their best performance and give their duties in covid wards results referral rates of hospital only 15-20 % as compare to other hospitals are very low.
“Due to the extraordinary efforts of these warriors the hospital is tackling the crowd including that of COVID patients as the hospital is a designated COVID hospital in the area when covid start but reality is that no proper staff available in hospital to operate invasive ventilators is a big issue of concern.
When contacted Director Health Services Jammu Dr. Renu Sharma said that for covid patients ventilators are used when required. |
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