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| Amid pandemic, frequent transfers turn GMC Jammu weak | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 7: While the winter capital of Jammu witnessed highest number of deaths due to the Covid19, “frequent transfers” in the healthcare system here are being seen as a major reason behind the crises in the City of Temples.
Official sources said while the Government Medical College Jammu remained the “biggest hospital” for treating Covid cases, the government preparedness towards the emergence of the second wave looked “non serious” at this crucial facility.
“As many as three principals and four other administrators at GMC Jammu have been transferred in around a year, how can you expect accountability in the system?” asked a senior official on the condition of anonymity.
He said if the government was serious to be prepared for the second wave of the pandemic, those at the helm should have been chosen with utmost caution so that frequent replacements were not needed.
“But the frequency of transfers where administrators were changed even within a month explains that the government was non-serious towards preparedness in Jammu that too at the largest facility,” said the official.
He said if such apparently frequent transfers were not done by the government, responsibility of any alleged negligence during the recent deaths in Jammu could have been fixed in a timely manner for improvement in the system.
Officials said the “quick replacements have given an excuse to each of those at the helm to plead their failure by putting the blame on the predecessors.”
It is pertinent to mention that with over one thousand Covid deaths and counting, the winter capital of Jammu has been the only district in Jammu and Kashmir to have suffered the maximum mortality in the Union Territory, though the count is coming down now.
While Jammu has witnessed maximum mortality in the month of May alone, it remains the second -worst affected district with regard to the number of positive cases.
Till May end, Jammu witnessed 49395 cases, while Srinagar, on the other hand, recorded 63825 cases, highest in the UT.
The City of Temples crossed 1,000 casualty figure on May 26. Of the over 1,000 deaths in Jammu, 535 deaths took place in May alone.
In the first wave, Jammu had recorded only 478 deaths as compared to 536 in Srinagar that time.
When contacted a senior official said the transfers are a “routine matter” and is done “in the interest of the administration.”
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