Peculiar Gandhi Jayanti celebrations in GMC
10/3/2015 12
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: The Gandhi Jayanti
celebrations in Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu on
Friday turned into a nightmare for hundreds of patients as OPD was closed for
organizing programme, which was more eulogizing ceremony for Health Minister
and less a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi as there was no space for a portrait of
Father of Nation which were overshadowed by hoardings of BJP in the function.
Paying little heed to the comfort of
patients despite the fact that hospitals are generally a silence zone,
loudspeakers were used in function organized by Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP),
while walls of OPD hall of the GMC were pasted with large hoardings of Health
Minister and other party activists. Besides contrary to theme of cleanliness,
filth was ruling roost in every nook and corner of GMC.
In connection with Gandhi Jayanti as well
as 1st anniversary of Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, BJP activists organized a
function in the OPD hall of GMC hospital with pomp and show but the reality of
the function was contrary to the exposing of garbage strewn all around RN
Chopara Nursing Home, near Mortuary Room and inside hospital.
"We usually see that the garbage is
spread around the hospital. It is for the function only and grab the headlines
in the dailies, it is being shown that how much they are concerned of the
sanitation of the hospital, "said, a 36-year-old, Om Parkash, who visited
the hospital with ailing son from district Rajouri to get his son checked at
OPD of hospital, but due to minister's function, the doctors of OPD were
engaged and busy in the function while Om Parkash had to return back home
without checkup of his son.
He also said hundreds of other patients too
were not examined by the doctor due to the function which was totally
politically inspired. It should not have happened in the Government Hospital
but who listens to poor, he lamented.
Sources at GMC hospital told Early Times
that the BJP activists placed numbers of large hording outside the OPD as well
as inside but surprisingly, there was no space for Father of Nation whose
Jayanti was being celebrated in the hospital except Minister for Health and BJP
activists.
"Earlier, the artists, who were hired
for drawing painting of Gandhi Ji and others on wall of hospital in-front of
Girls' hostel, were faced with huge troubles as nallah at there had overflown
and after great hardship, artists were able to draw painting, sources added.
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