Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 24: The Speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly today formed a House Committee to look into the alarming death rate in State’s premier hospital, the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) and Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) hospital at Jammu.
Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone formed 13-member House Committee today and it has to submit its report within a month. The Committee will suggest recommendations to prevent the hospital deaths. This is the second House Committee formed by the Speaker this year to look into hospital deaths. Earlier, a House Committee was formed to look into the deaths at Srinagar’s Children hospital.
The Committee will have NPP MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia as its chairman and MLAs Jugal Kishore, Aijaz Ahmad Jan, Mohammad Irfan Shah, Peer Afaq Ahmad, Ashok Kumar, Zulfikar Ali, Dr Shafi Ahmad Wani, Abdul Haq Khan, Durga Das, Engineer Abdul Rashid, Charanjeet Singh and Indu Pawar as its members.
It may be mentioned here that records of the SKIMS revealed that over 3000 patients have died in past 17 months at the hospital allegedly due to falling standards of health care and lack of effective administration.
The hospital records of the Pediatrics Department of the SMGS suggested that 2858 deaths were reported between January 2009 to May 31, 2012.
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