Machines defunct at Govt Hospital in Jammu, patients suffer

Jammu: The MRI department of Government Medical College and Hospital in Bakshi Nagar, Jammu which used to diagnose dozens of patients daily has been reportedly lying dysfunctional at the hospital from over a month is harming the patient care now.

In absence of MRI machine at GMC Bakshi Nagar in Jammu, patients are being forced to do these diagnostic tests done in private labs that too by paying hefty amounts.

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Aggrieved attendants are being advised by the doctors at GMC to visit private clinics, which is effecting them badly.

The cost of MRI scanning at private diagnosis centres is steep, ranging anywhere between ₹5,000 and ₹20,000 or even higher, thereby making it unaffordable for the poor.

GMC is a primary care centre, which receives a large number of critical patients everyday, and with the MRI facility unavailable from more than a month now, there is a long waiting list of patients to avail the facility at Private labs in Jammu currently.

Either the govt don’t want to repair the defunct MRI or they deliberately don’t want to in order to benefit private clinics, the report said.

The MRI machine is not making functional cause the govt is not paying any heed to hospital administration , the report alleged.

There are ten other districts of Jammu which don’t even have a MRI machine.

Jammu has no major leadership that’s why a single machine is not being repaired, the report asked.

No one wants to listen to the woes of poor and when Chaudhary Lal Singh was Health minister here the patients used to face less inconvenience that time, the report said.