Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Civil Society Forum (KCSF) has demanded adequate staff and infrastructure for the ChIldren’s Hospital at Bemina here to meet the patient care.
In a statement JKCSF Chairman Abdul Qayoom Wani has taken a dig on the government for ignoring the upgradation of the hospital with respect to the sufficiency of staff and the infrastructure.
The statement said that it was a good and appreciable step to shift and upgrade the erstwhile GB Pant Children Hospital from Sonwar to Bemina and to upgrade it from 200 bed capacity to 500, However, the upgradation is not keeping pace with the sufficiency of staff of doctors and paramedics that ought to be in a 500 bed children hospital. Neither there is enough nor up to date infrastructure, it added.
“One wonders that a 500 bed children’s hospital does not possess an MRI Machine neither a CT Scan unit. The ventilators too are insufficient and hospital does not have a pharmacy too,”said Wani
JKCSF said that it has learnt that even though the hospital is now of 500 bed capacity but the budget allocation this year was only of the old pattern that is of 200 bed capacity.