10/18/2016
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 18: State
Health Department is all set to open Interventional Pain Killer centre at
Government Gandhi Nagar Hospital which is first centre under Health Services
north India in Jammu. The centre may
Sources told Early Times
that same centre had been established at tertiary level Government Medical
College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu nearly 10 years ago but due to lack of
interest by the administration, the centre failed to take off. Moreover,
Anesthesia department of any medical college has to run pain clinic but in GMCH
the facilities is not available so far.
Expressing satisfaction, a
doctor said that the pain treatment was available at tertiary level due to
which patients as well as doctors had to face lot of hardships in dealing with
acute pain but now the treatment of severe pain will be available at secondary
level under the Health Services. Patients will get treatment from those doctors
who have specialization in pain management.
They also said that after
opening the centre, the patients with chronic pain including back and neck
pain, Knee pain, slipped disc pain, Joint pain, Ankle& Heel pain, Arthritis
pain, Head ache, Sports injuries, Neuralgic pain, Fibromylgia and cancer pain
will get relief from the severe pain.
"Due to
non-availability of specialized pain killer centre, the patients are running
from pillar to post for getting relief from the pain, "doctors said and
adding that numbers of patients moved outside the State for cure and spent huge
amount for treatment.
They further said that
according to a survey it was estimated that about 70 per cent of the 40 plus
population suffered with chronic pain and almost 70 to 75 percent of cancer
patients died with acute pain in India. "Increasing cases of the chronic
pain is of concern to health professionals, patients, society, and negatively
impacts quality of life these days, "docs said.
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