Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 5: Kashmir-based medicos’ and paramedics today said that they would observe September 7 – the day floods wreaked havoc across the region last year – as ‘black day’ to protest against the alleged failure of the Government to restore flood-hit hospitals.
The decision to observe to observe the black day was taken in a meeting of executive members of Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK), Resident Doctors Association (RDA) and Medical Employees Federation (MEF) of Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar and associated hospitals held today.
In a joint statement, the president of DAK, Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan President, president of RDA Dr Aadil Ashraf and the president of MEF, Shabir Langoo said that doctors and paramedics will wear black bands on Monday as Government has failed to revive flood affected hospitals.
Patients are dying of infections in these hospitals due to lack of facilities to test for viral, fungal and majority of bacterial infections, the joint statement read. “Even the life saving equipments like ventilators which were damaged in floods have not been replaced and patients are dying for want of life support,” it added.
The president of DAK, RDA and MEF said that the lack of machinery and equipments in these tertiary care hospitals which are crucial life saving assets has adversely affected patient care.”Government is not serious to rebuild these premier institutions which are being run by a re-employed principal who instead of restoring flood-hit hospitals is busy in retaining his illegally occupied position,” they added.
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