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Hello Jammu News at 8:18:00 PM 0

Takes stock of infrastructure at District Hospital, Physical Education, Unani College
GANDERBAL, AUGUST 28: Advisor to the Governor, K Vijay Kumar today visited Ganderbal district to review the developmental scenario and pace of progress of construction on mega developmental projects in the district.
During his visit, the Advisor was accompanied by MLA Ganderbal Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar, Commissioner Secretary Health and Medical Education, Pawan Kotwal, District Development Commissioner, Ganderbal, Dr Piyush Singla, SSP Ganderbal, ADC Ganderbal and other concerned officials.  
During his visit to district Hospital, Advisor Kumar visited several sections of the hospital including E R Section, OPD Section, USG Section, Causality ward and Surgical ICU where he interacted with the attendants and patients regarding the heath care facilities being provided there.
During his visit several issues were raised by the Medical Superintendent pertaining to dearth of staff, critical care ambulance, digital X-Ray and unavailability of other medical instruments. The Advisor assured that all issues will be taken up in the time bound manner.
 Advisor Kumar laid special emphasis on expediting the construction work of OPD and IPD blocks, installation of lifts, macdamization of approach road to the hospital and directed the concerned agencies to accelerate the pace of work and ensure its completion within the stipulated timeframe. He directed DDC Ganderbal to personally monitor the progress of works and welfare initiatives in all the sections of the hospitals and take monthly reviews in this regard.
During his visit to College of Physical Education Gadoora, Ganderbal, the Principal Dr Hartej Singh briefed the Advisor about the functioning of the college that is built at a cost of Rs 30.39 crore and spread over an area of 240 kanals.
On the occasion, the Advisor Kumar went around the college complex including Administrative block, Computer Laboratory, Library hall, Lecture halls and Fitness cum gym centre and inspected the facilities being provided there.
Later, the Advisor visited the Unani Medical College at Nawabagh, Ganderbal and took stock of preparedness of the infrastructure, manpower, equipments, furniture and other requirements for taking first batch of BUMS students.
He was apprised by Dr Abdul Kabir Dar, Principal Unani Medical College about additional requirement of funds of Rs 12.5 crores for completion of compound wall, administrative block, hostel block, furniture, creation of staff for the college and hospital and equipments for taking first batch of students.
The Advisor Kumar directed the DDC Ganderbal to sort out the issues of land requirement and the public demands of the area and also directed that the link road leading to college campus be macadamized and revised proposal be submitted to the government.
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Hello Jammu News at 4:15:00 PM 0

Kanpur (UP), Jun 8: Five elderly patients died in the ICU of a state-run hospital here during the last two days, with their attendants alleging that AC plant failure was the reason for their deaths, a charge denied by hospital authorities.
The incident brought back memories of the Gorakhpur hospital deaths last year allegedly due to shortage of oxygen.
While the attendants of patients alleged that the AC plant in the ICU of Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital was not working for the past several days leading to their deaths, the principal of the Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Medical College, under which the hospital functions, said the patients died due to serious illness and not because of any AC failure.
"There were problems in the AC plant yesterday. The problems were fixed, but they again cropped up," Principal Navneet Kumar admitted but emphatically denied the charge that the patients died due to air conditioning problem.
"The ICU has serious patients but none died due to AC failure," he told reporters here.
He said technicians have been asked to rectify the problem in the AC plant at the earliest and a probe has been instituted into the matter.
The deceased patients were identified as Indrapal (75) of Nurwal, Ganga Prasad Yadav (75) of Budhi-Khera Unnao, Rasool Baksh (62) of Sandeela Hardoi, Murari Lal (65) of Azamgarh and another person whose identity could not be established immediately.
Accepting that there were certain air conditioning problems, ICU in-charge Saurav Agarwal said the AC plant of the medicine department's ICU had shut down just two days back.
"Superintending in-charge of LLR Hospital, chief medical superintendent, power department officials and the agency concerned were informed and the problem was rectified. But the compressor again got burnt yesterday," Agrawal said.
"Although it was hot inside, life-saving machines like ventilators and monitors were not affected and were working properly. Only the AC became defective," he said.
An attendant of a patient told PTI that the LLR Hospital staff tried to provide relief to patients by opening windows and doors of the ICU, but it could not be of much help due to the blazing summer.
He said attendants had to use hand fans to bring some respite to restless patients.
On getting the news about the deaths, senior officials including district magistrate and additional district magistrate (ADM) rushed to the hospital for making on-the-spot assessment.
Last year several deaths took place in a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur allegedly due to shortage of oxygen.
More than 60 children, mostly infants, had died at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College there within the span of a week in August 2017, triggering a massive outrage.
There were allegations that the deaths occurred due to disruption in oxygen supply over unpaid bills to the vendor, a charge denied by the state government. (PTI)
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