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Surgical sutures split GMC&H's admin


12/20/2016
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report  

Jammu, Dec 20: Some Head of Departments (HODs) of Government Medical College are at loggerheads with the administration over purchase of surgical sutures (thread).
Since its establishment, the JK Medical Supplies Corporation has not provided surgical threads to government hospitals across the state including the GMC&H. It has resulted in confrontation between some senior doctors and administration of the hospital.
Sources in the GMC&H told Early Times that a meeting was held between some senior doctors and the administration to discuss unavailability of surgical sutures. During the meeting, when the administration asked some doctors to authorise them to purchase sutures from the market, the later refused to do so.
Sources said some doctors were favouring a particular company, but the administration did not agree. These doctors were asked by officials to leave the decision to administration.
Sources added that the Medical Sales Corporation did procure surgical sutures from a company but in absence of special coding to stop misuse or pilferage, the sutures are not being provided to the hospitals for its use which is forcing patients to go to market.
"A number of surgeries are conducted in GMC&H and its associated hospitals every day, and more than 15 types of sutures are used during surgeries," sources said.

When contacted Managing Director of JKMSCL Dr Yashpal Sharma agreed that the Corporation had procured sutures from a company but the same has not supplied in absence of special coding. "As we will receive items with the coding we will supply them to hospitals," he added.

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