Srinagar, Sept 5: City hospitals are facing shortage of ventilators as number of trauma cases have increased during the ongoing unrest.

 Even after doctors recommended several critical patients to be put on ventilators, the hospital authorities couldn’t accommodate them.  

  “ The SK Institute of medical Sciences had been established to cope up with normal situation and not for war or conflict like situation,” said a senior doctor of the Institute.

 He said several critically injured patients had to wait as no ventilators were available. Even doctors were harassed by attendants, who feared their patients may die due to non-availability of ventilators. “Fortunately, no patient died due to non-availability of ventilators during the past 2-months,” the doctor added.
 He said as per International health care norms SKIMS had enough number of ventilators. “We have 12 ventilators and as per norms it is idle number,” he added.

  The doctor underscored the need of two general hospitals with 300 beds each and a tertiary care hospital on the pattern of SKIMS in Kashmir.

 Talking to Greater Kashmir the Medical Superintendent of SKIMS, Syed Amin Tabish said the SKIMS needs eight more critical care beds to cope up with the present crisis.

 However, he was quick to add that they do not have space to extend the 12-bedded Surgical Intensive Care Unit. “We need a separate unit for increasing the critical bed capacity in the Institute,” he added.

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