Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 15: Accusing the Government of its total apathy towards them, the inmates of Jagti township have warned to come to streets if it failed to make the 40 bedded hospital fully functional in the township.
Inaugurated in 2015, the Jagti hospital sans all basic facilities and even the first aid treatment is not available in the hospital for the patients.
Unlike other Government hospitals no medicines and first aid facilities are available in the hospital which often results into patients -doctors clash, said Pinto Ji president Jagti Migrants Welfare Committee.
He said when a patient in case of an emergency is brought to the hospital no medicines are available here for his treatment.
He said the patients brought for treatment in the hospital are referred to GMC due to lack of facilities. While constructing the hospital we were promised every sort of facility but even the bandit is not available in there, he added.
The authorities have no will to run it as a full fledged hospital and merely posting of doctors and para medical staff is of no use when they san basic facilities for treatment of the patients, he said.
“We invited Ministers to the Hospital to apprise them of the problems being faced by patients and they promised to provide all facilities including supply of medicines but to no avail’’, he added.
The hospital is without an Orthopaedic surgeon and a Physician, said Vinod Tickoo an inmate of the camp. Besides no X Ray facility are available in the hospital and the patients have no alternative except to visit Jammu for X-Ray.
He said the failure of Relief authorities to provide funds to the J&K Medical Corporation which supplies medicines to hospitals has compounded the problem.
He demanded that the Relief Organization should provide funds to the Medical Corporation so that it can purchase medicines for the hospital.
Despite being a 40 bedded hospital four or five beds have been installed there only with the result patients are made to suffer.
If the hospital is made fully operational, besides catering to the medical facilities of the camp inmates, it can also serve the surrounding villages of Jagti or serve as an emergency hospital on National Highway too there by decreasing the rush on GMC. It is not known when a huge amount was spent on construction hospital building why the Government is hesitating in making it fully functional, he added.
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