Nitesh Sangral

What happened to hyped Drug Policy? 8/31/2015 Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report   Jammu, Aug 30: Much hyped Drug Policy is still a distant dream for the poor and needy patients of Jammu and Kashmir as many believe it was swept under the carpet owing to the influence of strong drug lobby that operates in the state. Pertinently, the drug policy for the state was sanctioned in 2012 to ensure availability of quality drugs to patients in all government hospitals and check influx of spurious drugs besides enforcing rational prescription. Reliable Sources in health department told Early Times that many times, the concerned officials of the hospitals, NGO's and other organizations had requested and called on higher ups of the health Department but to little avail. "some officials of the department have nexus with the pharma companies and they earn huge profits by helping or boosting the business of private chemist shops in the state, "they claimed. They further sai...

8/4/2015 Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report    JAMMU, Aug 3: Three persons, including a KAS officer, have encroached upon a deep drain (nallah) in Sarwal area of Jammu and raised construction over it, with the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) choosing to ignore the issue. Under the J&K Water Resources Act, all water bodies including nallah (big drain) are property of the state. And if anyone encroaches upon the water resources, legal action would be taken against him/her under the law. But despite encroachment of the nallah in Sarwal, no one is taking action against the violators who happen to be influential people. While talking to Early Times, a complainant Sanjay Gupta said that despite a PIL filed in the High Court, the KAS officer was raising construction over the nallah. Gupta said he also filed a complaint in the Vigilance Organization against Commissioner of JMC, ex-Joint Commissioner Kapil Sharma, Khalafwarzi Officer Rajesh Gupta and Anil Gupta fo...

7/29/2015 Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report    Jammu, July 29: Meals to patients who are admitted in the Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu and its associated hospitals might be stopped in coming days as the authorities have not cleared the outstanding of the supplier. The supplier has already stopped supply of breakfast to the patients after the purchasing committee of the GMC failed to clear its pending bills totaling about Rs 1.83 crore. Now, sources said, the supplier is likely to stop the afternoon meal as well. "It seems the supplying firm would be unable to continue the supply of diets to all these hospitals, as their payment is pending for a long time. Ironically, now when it's likely that the meals would be stopped, the authorities seem unbothered about the plight of patients," the sources said. A member of the firm supplying meals told Early Times, "We are now fed up. Our repeated reminders about the outstanding to the administration ...

Two patients died as non-availability of anti-hemophilia factors 7/29/2015 12:31:17 AM Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report jammu, July 28: Two patients have died in the Jammu and Kashmir allegedly due to non-availability of anti-hemophilia factor in the hospitals of the state in last eight months, puncturing the tall claims of the Health Minister. Moreover, the patients are still yearning for factor. Heartless attitude of the Health Department, is deliberately forcing hundreds of patients, who are suffering with this life-long genetic bleeding disorder Hemophilic, to die in Jammu as well as Kashmir as factors have not been made available to the needy patient especially those who couldn't buy the expensive factors. Pertinently, irked by the lackadaisical approached of the Health Department, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court had also pulled up and directed it to keep the factor available for 24 hours in the hospital. But unfortunately, in complete disregard of directions...

7/27/2015 Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report Jammu, July 27: The State government today ordered following transfers and postings in the Social Welfare department. Fareed Kohli, DSWO, Udhampur is transferred and posted as Assistant Director (Administration), Directorate of Social Welfare Jammu against available vacancy. Rachana Sharma, awaiting orders of posting is herby posted as District social welfare officer, Udhampur Mukhlis Ali, awaiting orders of posting is hereby posted as DSWO, Poonch. Reyaz Ahmad Shah, awaiting orders of posting is hereby posted as CDPO, ICDS, Project, Kulgam. He will also hold the additional charge of ICDS, Project, DH Para. Manmeet Kumar, awaiting orders of posting is hereby posted as CPDO, ICDS Project Marh. Mir Masooda CDPO, ICDS project, Marh shall report to Deputy Director, ICDS, Jammu till further orders. Arshad Ahmad Khan, awaiting orders of posting is hereby posted as CDPO, ICDS Project Wavora. He shall also hold the additional char...

Authorities choose to stay dumb 7/15/2015 Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report   Jammu, July 14: Authorities have chosen to turn nelson's eye to the continuing encroachments on land of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) from Sainik Colony to Narwal Jammu by some influential businessmen. Reliable Sources informed that Early Times that many a politically affluent businessmen and land grabbers have usurped the NHAI land and they are allegedly in league with the authorities. It is pertinent to mention here that numbers of showrooms and others multi storey buildings have come up along the national highway and several of them have encroached the land belonging to the NHAI. Seeking anonymity, official sources in the NHAI said that NHAI officials had received complaints many times by locals but owing to political involvement, no action could be taken against these businessmen and the authority ignored its own rules and regulations and safely turned blind eye to ...

The incident exposes "faulty" fire management system 7/7/2015 Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report    Jammu, July 6: Panic gripped the premier Super Speciality Hospital here Monday evening following mysterious fire which broke out in CT Scan unit, gutting property worth lakhs and exposing the "faulty" fire management system of the health institute. Short circuit was believed to be cause of the fire which was brought under control by the fire tenders that were pressed into service. This is the second incident of fire in the hospital and it seems as if the administration of hospital and higher ups have not learnt lesson from the first incident that occurred on November 9, 2014. The incident took place around 6:30 pm when fire broke in CT scan unit on first floor of the hospital due to short circuit but the fire-fighting systems, which were installed after spending crores of rupees, proved non- functional. Moreover, patients and attendants, who were admit...