Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Aug 27: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that lack of critical care ambulances in Kashmir hospitals is costing lives of emergency and trauma patients.
Voicing concern President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that lack of critical care ambulances is proving fatal for sick and wounded.
Ambulances that are available in our hospitals are as good as trucks with no resuscitation facilities and trained staff, he said, adding none of these vehicles are fitted with life support systems rendering them no better than regular transport vehicles.
Patients ferried in these so-called ambulances have no advantage over a patient travelling in a normal vehicle. These vehicles are just while colored vans with a siren.
“Majority of critically ill patients die in transit or reach hospitals in a morbid condition as the ambulances carrying them lack equipment and qualified staff,” he said, adding patients who died could have been saved if appropriate care was given to them during transfer.
While in rest of the world air ambulances are used to transport wounded to save lives, in Kashmir trauma patients continue to die due to lack of proper road networks, DAK said.
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