Health Deptt fails to
spend funds released by Guv
2/22/2015
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 21: Owing to
unavailability of specialized labs along with insufficient of medicine vaccines
in the government hospitals, a major threat about Swine Flu taking a shape of
epidemic is looming large over Jammu and Kashmir.
"Lackadaisical
attitude of the Health Department and its failure to keep the state hospitals
equipped with medicine and other necessary facilities cn prove fatal for the
state," sources said.
They said the Governor N N
Vohra released Rs 30 lakhs to the Health Department to augment the stock of
medicines and vaccines and purchase ventilators to effectively deal with the
flu. "Two days have passed when the amount was released but the health
department is claiming that it would take three more days to purchase the
vaccines and ventilators," they added.
MLA Sat pal Sharma
speaking to Early Times said that he had given instructions to the hospital
administration to purchase the needy medicine and provide it to the patients
who need it.
Asked that GMC hospital
has no lab facility due to which its taking days for reports to come, he said,
"We will send a proposal to Centre government to provide funds and lab
facility would be available in the hospital."
When contacted Director
Health Service Jammu, Dr. Baljeet Pathania said, the department has given
instructions to the concerned authorities for purchasing the essential medicine
along with ventilators for which the amount has been released by Governor a few
days ago. "The facilities will be available in the hospital within two
days, "he claimed.
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