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Patients facing blues in Jammu hospitals

Diagnostic facilities proving insufficient for rising footfall
5/24/2017 
Early Times Report 

Jammu, May 24: Contradictory to the claims of State Health Department of providing best medical facilities to the people of Jammu, the patients visiting Jammu health institutes have to wait for long to get their diagnostic tests done in all the health institutes of Jammu.

All health institutes including Government Medical College and Hospital, Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh Hospital (SMGS), Super Specialty Jammu, Government hospital Sarwal, Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar have diagnostic facilities like Ultrasound machine, CT scan, X-ray etc., but they are falling insufficient for the growing number of patients visiting these hospitals, as a result of which, even the emergency patients have to wait for days or turn to private diagnostic centers in the city which charge exorbitantly for these tests.

"I am not accusing doctors and other staff because they are doing their job and catering to huge rush of patients across Jammu province but it is pity that the government is not live to the need of adding on to the existing facilities" said Kusum Lata, an attendant at SMGS hospital.
 
Only one machine
"I asked the Technician why they were taking so much time to conduct a test while long queue of patients was waiting outside in scorching heat and the technician replied that there was a single machine and too many patients”

Another attendant from RS Pura alleged that they had to wait for long to get a simple X-ray done in Gandhi Nagar hospital because of same problem. "I asked the Technician why they were taking so much time to conduct a test while long queue of patients was waiting outside in scorching heat and the technician replied that there was a single machine and too many patients," he added.

A hospital employee pleading anonymity said that the demand for additional diagnostic facilities has been projected by the department to the government, but there has been no progress and the imbalance between existing facilities and number of patients was increasing.


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