Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 2: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader and former Chairman, Sanitation Committee JMC, Baldev Singh Billawaria has expressed concern and dismay at the transfer of 28 health workers from Gangyal Hospital in Ward N: 56 of R S Pura-Jammu, South Assembly constituency.
Billawaria, while addressing a press conference at Gangyal this morning condemned the casual attitude of authorities of Health Department of Jammu and Kashmir Government for withdrawing medical facilities for people from Gangyal Hospital where virtually locks have been put and people made to suffer. He said that on the one hand administration in Jammu and Kashmir claims that health facilities in the Union Territory are being improved and greater infrastructure for better health services to the people are being added, on the other hand, bureaucracy is bent upon denying basic health facilities to the people.
Billawaria stated that Gangyal Hospital was inaugurated last year by Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha and this Hospital has the unique distinction of successfully conducting Spine Surgery. Billawaria said that it is astonishing that staff of Gangyal Hospital has been shifted as a result of which patients numbering about 300 every day are deliberately being denied OPD facilities and allowed to suffer.
He said that at the time of inauguration of Gangyal Hospital by Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha, he had personally appealed him for upgrading this Hospital to district level in due course of time so as to provide better health care to the people of RS Pura-Jammu South Assembly constituency.
Billawaria hoped that Lt Governor would take cognizance of this aspect of grave problem afflicting people at the earliest and will take appropriate decision to provide adequate health care to people from Gangyal Hospital Jammu.
Roghi Kalyan Smiti Member, Puran Verma was also present in the press conference. He stated that people of Gangyal would agitate vigorously and would be compelled to stage dharna if staff is not brought back in Gangyal Hospital. Ranjit Singh, Mulkh Raj, Dr Indra, Harpal Singh Bali were also present.
Follow our WhatsApp channel
