DH Ramban lacks basic facilities

4 persons injured in different road accident

Tahir Mushtaq

RAMBAN, March 02: Four persons were injured critically in a two different road accidents in Ramban after which the National Highway (NH) at Ramban was blocked for around one hour for vehicular traffic, here today.

According to police a truck on its way from Jammu to Srinagar when it was hit with a Figo bearing registration no. JK02AK-6262, near Peer Baba Ramban this afternoon resulting three persons in which two of them were travelling in Figo identified as Sahil Dogra (27) son of Sudesh Kumar Dogra and Avinash Dogra (24) son of Mahinder Kumar Dogra both resident of Maitra Ramban while the other person identified as Partap Singh (43) son of Jodh Ram resident of Bajmasta village of Ramsoo in district Ramban were injured.

The locals shifted to them District Hospital (DH) Ramban, where doctors referred to one critically injured Avinash Dogra after giving first aid to Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu for further treatment.

Another accident occurred when a Tavera bearing registration no. JK03D-1146 hit one lady namely Zubaida Begum wife of Gulam Mohammad Wani resident of ward no. 4, cafeteria Ramban near cafeteria resulting critically injured the lady, which for referred to GMC Jammu.

While showing his concern about the said accident, Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), Ramban Neelam Kumar Lengah reached spot and also visited DH Ramban to look after the condition of the injured persons and directed the concern doctors to provide better treatment to the patients.

MLA assured that he will personally meet with the district administration and asked them to provide suitable help to one injured Partap Singh who is a labourer.

National Conference provincial secretary, Amrit Varsha also visited the hospital for asses the condition injured persons.

t is pertinent to mention here that the DH Ramban lacks some major basic facilities due to which the doctor failed to provide the suitable treatment and immediately referred accident victims either to Jammu or Srinagar, owing which some of the patients succumbed to their injuries on the way while covering 150 km distance as they didn’t get required medication on time.

Locals alleged that this is not for the first time when a accident victim unable to get medical treatment on time and doctors referred him to GMC Jammu, as nowadays condition of NH is very bad due to recent rainfall and land sliding at different parts on NH causing difficulties to reach ambulance on time.

They appealed to the MLA Ramban and district administration to look into the matter and enable every facility in DH Ramban as Ramban district is accident prone area, required fully equipped hospital to tackle such incidents.