Valley’s private hospitals risk patients’ lives: DAK

Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Jan 29: Medicos in the Valley have demanded that private hospitals without infrastructure and skilled people to cater medical and surgical emergencies should be closed down.
President Doctors Association Kashmir, Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan, said that private hospitals in Kashmir risk patients’ lives because the private hospitals are without basic and advanced life support measures.
“No private hospital has accident and emergency unit which is mandatory for every hospital. The private hospitals lack intensive care units, ventilators, proper oxygen delivery system and proper heating system, modern diagnostic facilities like C T scan and MRI,” said Dr Hassan.
He claimed the private hospitals deal with obstetric patients without neonatal intensive care units exposing fragile babies to risk.
“They are without neonatologists and critical care specialists. The private hospitals have part time super specialists in cardiology, gastroenterology, who they borrow for few hours from Government hospitals,” he said.
He said this is unfortunate that government has licensed these private hospitals despite lack of infrastructural facilities thus endangering precious lives.

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