Suhail Bhat
Pulwama, May 29: Authorities’ failure to complete the construction work of a new 100 bedded Inpatient Department (IPD) Block at District Hospital Pulwama is affecting the health care services as the present building is insufficient to cater to the huge rush of the patients that hospital witnesses.
Authorities at the hospital said the ‘space constraint’ is affecting the overall functioning of the hospital and patient care. “All the new initiatives which we are planning to take depend directly on the availability of the space,” said Medical Superintendent District Hospital Pulwama, Abdul Rashid Parra.
He said with the introduction of several new patient-friendly initiatives, the workload of the hospital has increased but the existing structure is proving insufficient. “We have no space for the admissions. In emergency care, the dearth of space forces us to adjust two-three patients on a single bed which is very unfortunate and injustice to the patient,” said the Medical Superintendent.
He said that in the present building, there were no IPD facilities and they have made temporary arrangement for the gynecology patients. “We also use one of the rooms at newly build causality unit for surgical patients,” the MS said, adding that the hospital has no room available for the medicine and for specializations like orthopaedic and dermatology there is no space available.
“If we have to admit patients under these specializations there are no rooms available,” the MS said. He said that with the completion of the building, they would have enough ward space. “All the wards will be shifted to the new building and the old building will be used for other purposes: The hospital will soon get CT- Scan and facilities like Dialysis and District Intervention Centre,” the Medical Superintendent added.
Joint Director Planning at Pulwama, Abdul Ganie when contacted said with an estimated cost of Rs 25.06 crore, the construction work was started in the year 2012-13 and delay in funds hampered the construction work.
“Out of Rs. 25.06 crore, only Rs 15 crore were released. Last year more Rs five crore were released,” he said, adding that they have asked the Housing and Development Board, which is its executive agency, to complete the construction work by the end of this year.
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