DOCTORS ASSOCIATION KASHMIR (FOR WELFARE OF DOCTORS/ QUALITY
HEALTH CARE)
Ref. No 7438/DAK/2014 Dated 02-10-2014 Healthcare Crisis in
Valley due to defunct referral Hospitals: DAK Will file a PIL
seeking probe into hospital deaths.Srinagar Oct 02: President
Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Dr Nisar ul Hassan today in a
statement said that there is healthcare crisis in valley due to
defunct premier hospitals. SMHS, Lal Ded, GB Pant, SKIMS Bemina
hospitals which have been ravaged by devastating floods have not
been made operational yet. These referral hospitals have not been
properly disinfected so far thus putting patients and doctors to
risk of infections. The damaged machinery has not been restored or
replaced without which tertiary care hospital is like a boat
without oar. The damaged oxygen plants, the lifeline of hospitals,
have not been made functional and there are no blood bank
facilities. Governments claim that hospitals are working normally
is hoax as on ground hospitals they are non functional. Patients in
the valley are left to the mercy of Almighty as the referral
hospitals are out of service and they have nowhere to go.
Authorities are in deep slumber, shying away from their
responsibility and as if they have nothing to do with the
difficulties of people. The restorations of hospitals have to be
the highest priority of the government and it is not only its
responsibility but its duty. Rather than making referral hospitals
operational, doctors of GB Pant hospital, the only tertiary care
hospitals for children, have been directed to work in district
hospitals thus government is in no mood to restore the services of
referral hospital. DAK will file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
seeking a probe into hospital deaths during floods. There was no
alert to hospitals and the stranded patients were not rescued
timely with the result 13 precious lives were lost in SMHS and
scores of infants died in GB Pant and LD hospitals. We are moving
to court to fix responsibility of deaths and punish people involved
in criminal negligence. Government has failed in assessing the
magnitude of floods and was not prepared for managing floods which
endangered human lives. Sd/Spokesperson
