Nishikant Khajuria
JAMMU, Sept 25: Smelling some conspiracy in failure of power supply during an operation in Super Specialty Hospital Jammu, here yesterday, the Minister for Medical Education has ordered a probe to investigate the factual position while the SSH administration has also lodged a complaint with the police in this regard.
The inquiry committee, comprising Administrator of the Government Medical College and Associate Hospitals, Som Nath, HoD Urology Dr Sunil Gupta and Executive Engineer (Mechanical), GMC, will probe the matter and submit report to the Principal GMC within 24 hours, official sources informed the Excelsior.
The report will be forwarded to the higher authorities and the Minister for Medical Education Taj Mohi-ud-Din who has taken a very serious notice of the unprecedented incident of power failure in the Operation Theatre during surgery, which could have taken life of the patient, sources added.
The Minister is also learnt to have issued necessary directions to the SSH administration to remain extra vigilant for avoiding possibility of any such incident in near future.
It may be mentioned here that power supply in one of the Operation Theatres of SSH was abruptly disrupted when Dr Noor Ali was conducting a Cardio-Thoracic Vascular Surgery on a four-year old child there.
The power supply remained disrupted in the Operation Theatre for a few hours even as all the three Generator Sets, High End UPS and emergency lights were functional.
According to the sources, after through inspection by the experts and hospital administration, it was found that the cause of power failure in one of the Operation Theatres was apparently not mechanical but a deliberate attempt by some vested interests, who switched off the Main Panel of that particular OT when the surgery was being conducted.
This Main Panel automatically goes off only during major disasters like fire or such emergency situations but not normally as it happened on Thursday when there was not even a small mechanical fault and all the OTs as well as other patient care areas, including main hospital building were working without any problem, sources explained.
As the matter was soon brought into the notice of Taj Mohi-ud-Din by the Superintendent SSH Jammu, Dr Riyaz Ahmad, the former immediately ordered constitution of a probe panel and registration of an FIR in this regard.
Yes, we have received a complaint by the Medical Superintendent SSH and Police is investigating the matter, confirmed SHO Bakshi Nagar Dilip Singh.
Pertinent to mention here that a few doctors and section of GMC Jammu staff are clandestinely opposing the Government decision of partially operationalizing SSH on the ground that facilities were not adequate in the new hospital, which has not yet been inaugurated formally.
Out of the six OTs in Super Specialty Hospital Jammu, only two are operational so far.
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