Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 1 : Dog menace is on the rise not only in
the winter capital of state but in Government hospitals including Government
Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Jammu and its other associated hospitals.
On any given day a group of dogs can be seen moving in
and around the emergency block, recovery ward and passage leading to the
ultrasound clinic in the GMCH Jammu. If recalled GMCH Jammu also hit media
limelight in 2012 when monkey were found sleeping on the beds of emergency ward
and a media person also had uploaded a video on Youtube on July 19, 2012
showing monkey freely roaming in the emergency wing of the Govt Medical College
and Hospital in Jammu
The incident pained the then Chief Minister who
tweeted: "I am shocked by the images of the monkey in a Jammu hospital.
"Before I say anything I owe it to my Minister to first ask him to
explain," he tweeted. The hospital authorities who had failed to regulate
movement of visitors in the hospital premises despite various steps including
entry slips yet seem to have taken lenient view of the presence of large number
of dogs and monkeys as well. The dogs not only roam around throughout the day
but also spread litter and secrete in and around the recovery ward. Regular
visitors to the GMC&H Jammu premises complain that on number of occasions
the message has been conveyed to the hospital authorities to take care of the
dog menace and find a permanent solution to the problem but till date no
sincere effort has been made by the hospital authorities to address the issue.
The situation is grim during evenings and it becomes
difficult for the patients’ attendants to shoo away the dogs.
A guard manning the gates outside the main emergency
block on anonymity said they usually keep an eye on the movement of visitors to
the hospital premises but if a stray dog manages to gain access inside the
premises it is very difficult to scare it as it will create chaos within the hospital.
The sweepers working in the hospital also claimed that
they used to scare away the dogs but these turn to hospital for the want of
leftover food thrown by the visitors. "We time and again appeal to vsitors
not to litter the leftover food but all in vain many visitors even throw their
left over eatables from the fourth and fifth floor of hospital to the ground. A
sweeper briefly said people used to target the lower rung and complain to
authorities about sweepers not doing their jobs but many a time educated lot
are also seen throwing waste eatables and leaving empty plates and cups on the
tables in 'Nescafe canteen' which offers only self service and never bother to
put the empty plates in the nearby dustbins. A medico also humming similar
tunes said that lack of 'civic sense' among the visitors be it educated or the
illiterate is root cause of the unhygienic surroundings in the Hospitals be it
Jammu city or elsewhere in state. "Who cares? approach needs to be seized
among all of us, he said adding," I personally believe only this will be
the threshold (gateway) to Swachh Bharat Campaign.
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