Tahir Mushtaq
JAMMU, Mar 21: Despite of tall claims made by the concern officials of the health department of the state government to provide better facilities at every nook and corner of the state, but the concern department is lacking somewhere due to which common masses suffer.
There are many such examples which show that the concern department neglecting the pain of people by not providing them proper facility at
their door step.
One such glaring example is the District Hospital (DH) Doda, where the shortage of required number of medical and para-medical staff is the
main problem for the people of the said area.
DH Doda having capacity of 100 beds catering to the medical needs of almost 90 thousand people of the area, has failed to fulfill the medical needs of the people allegedly because they have to face many problems due to lack of facilities in the hospital.
This hilly district having maximum population in rural and hilly areas lacks required number of hospitals and other infrastructural facilities.
Talking to this reporter, patients said that Pathology wing of the hospital is in worst condition, due to lack of infrastructure and staff, people had to wait for many hours sometimes for many days.
Patients alleged that for ultrasound tests, ECG, X-Rays, and other tests, they have to wait for many days as machines are older and many times the result is inaccurate. Many patients forced to accommodate on one bed as there is also deficiency of required beds. Out of 20 sanctioned posts of Assistants Surgeons, availability is only 4 surgeons posted in which only one doctor is available for the patients and other 3 are posted somewhere else.
“The posts of B-Grade doctor in Surgery, Pediatrics and Eye department is vacant from last few weeks as the doctors appointed there got promoted to some other hospitals” they added.
Locals also said that entire area is hilly and accident prone, the Casualty and Emergency facilities in the hospital should be available soon so that precious lives can be saved.
Official sources disclosed that there are about 400 to 500 Out Patient Department (OPD), but due to lack of less number of staff in hospital the other staff member also get pressurized by patients as well as the senior doctors.
When contacted Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Doda Dr Ashraf said that the department has sent the proposal to the higher authorities time to time for
the shortage of staff.
He also said that new building for District Hospital is under construction, and will hopefully completed in December 2012, once the construction is completed, problem of space shortage would be get solved then only.
There are many such examples which show that the concern department neglecting the pain of people by not providing them proper facility at
their door step.
One such glaring example is the District Hospital (DH) Doda, where the shortage of required number of medical and para-medical staff is the
main problem for the people of the said area.
DH Doda having capacity of 100 beds catering to the medical needs of almost 90 thousand people of the area, has failed to fulfill the medical needs of the people allegedly because they have to face many problems due to lack of facilities in the hospital.
This hilly district having maximum population in rural and hilly areas lacks required number of hospitals and other infrastructural facilities.
Talking to this reporter, patients said that Pathology wing of the hospital is in worst condition, due to lack of infrastructure and staff, people had to wait for many hours sometimes for many days.
Patients alleged that for ultrasound tests, ECG, X-Rays, and other tests, they have to wait for many days as machines are older and many times the result is inaccurate. Many patients forced to accommodate on one bed as there is also deficiency of required beds. Out of 20 sanctioned posts of Assistants Surgeons, availability is only 4 surgeons posted in which only one doctor is available for the patients and other 3 are posted somewhere else.
“The posts of B-Grade doctor in Surgery, Pediatrics and Eye department is vacant from last few weeks as the doctors appointed there got promoted to some other hospitals” they added.
Locals also said that entire area is hilly and accident prone, the Casualty and Emergency facilities in the hospital should be available soon so that precious lives can be saved.
Official sources disclosed that there are about 400 to 500 Out Patient Department (OPD), but due to lack of less number of staff in hospital the other staff member also get pressurized by patients as well as the senior doctors.
When contacted Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Doda Dr Ashraf said that the department has sent the proposal to the higher authorities time to time for
the shortage of staff.
He also said that new building for District Hospital is under construction, and will hopefully completed in December 2012, once the construction is completed, problem of space shortage would be get solved then only.
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