Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 7: What could be a glaring paradox that on one side the State Government has bagged best award for health care on the other its Chest Disease Hospital in Jammu is minus sanitation and working toilets?
A deputation of some attendants of the patients undergoing treatment in the hospital today visited Excelsior office and complained that the hospital though presenting a nice look from outside is woefully found wanting in basic facilities such as good toilets and continuous water supply. The result is that patients are made to fumble for some clean toilets in the maze of corridors of the hospital.
This hospital caters to patients who suffer from many grave diseases, some of which are highly infectious or contagious. Hence the need for having clean and good toilets is more felt in such a hospital which is said to be the showpiece of State’s health care commitment.
They said, “visitors at first look are impressed at the plan of the building and its flooring but as soon as they move towards its toilets, they turn back at the sight of filth and squalor. It is a sorry picture to see a good building, having toilets whose doors are broken, wash basins filthy and waste pipes missing. Every ward has creaky toilet doors and water is scarcely at hand. Patients suffer on account of privacy and their sick bodies can become easy prey for more severe diseases because of poor sanitation”.
Moreover, there is no place where patients could change clothes as bathrooms have broken doors making a patient specially women hesitant to go inside, they said adding, with such apathy towards basic and crucial things such as toilets and water, there is little doubt that the authorities of the hospital are not in a mood to think such basic amenities of much importance.
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