Agreed that in treating COVID patients, especially looking to their ever increasing number over the last four months , the Chest Disease Hospital Jammu was declared as level-2 COVID Hospital which caused relocation if not absolute dislocation to chest disease patients in terms of consultation, diagnosis and treatment facilities. They had, as a result, to keep shifting between hospitals although at SSH, the concerned IPD was shifted.
Most of the hospitals suspended their OPDs and the Chest Disease Hospital too followed suit which remained in strict force for over a month. While this decision was imperative as a novel type of emergency had crept in, the chest disease patients especially those suffering from the TB, had to suffer much for want of treatment facilities. Who else could be blamed excepting the authorities of the Health and Medical Education Department, the GMC Hospital Jammu for neglecting chest disease patients for whom otherwise the Chest disease hospital is exclusively meant. To treat one set of patients at the cost of other, augers not well for the Health care authorities.
Now, as if their woes were less, these patients have to visit different hospitals for diagnosis and treatment which most of the patients find difficult to cope up with. Gandhi Nagar hospital being not equipped with infrastructure of TB testing facility, these patients had to go Gangyal. Under these circumstances Medical authorities must consider to earmark one ward for such patients in GMC Hospital Jammu or at SSH till the pressure of COVID patients on CD hospital remains to enable them get timely diagnosis and treatment.
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