Seriously ill forced to climb stairs
9/8/2015
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 8: Owing to lack of coordination between
administration of Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu and its
Mechanical Wing, the lifts of the hospital are non-functional for last 15 days
forcing patients and their attendants to use either stairs or the ramp which is
not advisable for many of them, particularly the critically sick patients.
Sources at GMC hospital Jammu said that the administration of hospital was sent
a proposal to replace these old lifts with the new ones and one lift has been
replaced but other was left abandoned.
They further said that two lifts were installed in the
GMC and Hospital Jammu to take the patients to their respective wards around a
decade back but at present both lifts are out of order for last 15 days.
"One lift was already out of order for last one month, now second lift of
the hospital was also not functioning but neither the hospital administration
nor officials of Mechanical wing bother to fix the problems, " they
claimed adding that sometimes lifts become defunct putting the life of patients
to grave risk.
An attendant of patient, Ram Lal from Kathua said that
lifts remain closed during the night and the patients, who have been shifted
from the Emergency Ward to any other wards of hospital, have to face lots of
inconvenience and they have to choose stairs or ramp path which is risky.
Another attendant of patient said people visit the hospitals are mostly under
stress and always undergone through tension due to suffering of their dear
ones- and when they see non-functional lifts in the hospital, the people and
the patients shifted to top floors of the hospital face lot of inconvenience,
particularly while going to deliver samples for test or for the collection of
reports.
Medical Superintendent of GMC Hospital Jammu Dr
Ravinder Rattan Paul couldn't be contacted despite repeated attempts.
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