Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 4: Patients and attendants have been facing a tough time in Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu due to defunct elevators.
According to sources, both the lifts meant for patients in GMC Jammu are out of order for last two days and left with barely any alternative, patients are forced to climb stairs or walk through ramps even to reach 5th and 6th floors of the hospital.
“Due to non-functioning of the elevators, critical patients are taken to the wards by their attendants climbing stairs which poses high risk to them. Many aged patients can be seen taking long rest while going up the stairs up to fourth floor,” said Mukesh Sharma, an attendant of a patient.
Another attendant Khalil Ahmed said that the real difficulty is for emergency patients and their attendants who rely on lifts to reach the wards in 4th, 5th and 6th floors or come down for testing or collecting reports of various tests. He said that hospital management is putting the lives of patients at risk by not repairing the elevators.
“People visiting the hospitals are mostly under stress and always undergone through tension due to suffering of their dear ones and on the top of that the defunct lifts increases their suffering,” said Mohan Singh, another attendant.
When contacted, Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, Dr Dara Singh said that the both the lifts will be made operational by tomorrow as engineers of the Mechanical Wing of the hospital are on job. He said that the delay happened due to lockdown restrictions as the engineers of the company had to come from Chandigarh.
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