Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 6: The workers of Dogra Front & Shiv Sena under the leadership of their president, Ashok Gupta, today held a protest in Jammu city against the grim state of Government hospitals in Jammu.
Expressing grave concern over the worst condition of Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu, Gupta said there is foul smell even in emergency block of the hospital due to lack of proper cleanliness.
He said one bed is shared by three patients and there is shortage of staff and drugs. The cities however have private hospitals where people can go for treatment but in rural areas there is no clinic available up to 20 kilometres, he added.
Government is duty bound to provide better health care services to people and doctors be made ready to serve in rural areas, he said, senior doctors appear only occasionally or attend OPD. Emergency is completely handed over to juniors on internship.
Gupta said that the CM has attached the Superintendent of the Medical College but it would not make much difference as the Health care system need a cyclonic reform at the grass root level.
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