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| Pilferage of drugs in hospitals | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 8: Government's claim that it is spending crores of rupees for providing necessary healthcare facilities, including medicines and surgical equipment to the needy patients seems futile in view of inability of health department to let patients actually take real benefit for it.
State hospitals are seething with mismanagement and disorder, and doctors behave in an irresponsible manner with the patients. It appears that instead of being dedicated to their profession, the doctors are concerned more about commercial interest..
Government hospital Gandhi Nagar is a case in point notwithstanding the fact that this is a premier medical institute in the region. TNI team visited this hospital to report the difficulties faced by the patients. To their utter surprise they found that hundreds of medicines entered in the lists displayed outside the drug store in the hospital.
Many of these medicines and drugs are provided by the government but the hospital administration does not pass them on to the needy and poor. Doctors invariably direct patients to buy these from the market. Rupinder Kour of Gadi Garh, a gynecological patient, complained that the doctor did not provide her any medicine and she was obliged to buy them from the market. She disclosed that earlier she had been told that her tests would be taken in the hospital but that never happened and she had to get these done in private clinics. The concerned doctor was not available for the verification of patient's statement.
Another patient under the treatment of the same doctor also endorsed her similar experience. A glance at the list of medicines showed that a total of 146 items stood enlisted, which should have been made available to indoor patients.. But, in fact only 33 medicines or drugs were on display at the hospital dispensary. Even out of these hardly anything reaches the patients. Their complaints about the irresponsibility of hospital authorities are repeatedly heard.
When asked about the displayed list of the drugs and surgical equipment, the store keepers told the reporters that these were to be seen on the dispensary board. But in actuality no such list was to be seen anywhere outside the emergency operation theater.
Another patient Razima Koul, under the treatment of Dr. Avinash Abrol also said that she bought medicines from the market.
Our correspondent tried to contact the doctor to find out the fact but he was not available.
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