Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 21: The attendants of border fire victims tonight held a protest in front of Emergency of Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu, over want of medicines and unavailability of doctors in the hospital.
According to the reports, two real brothers of Kanachak namely Gopal Bawa and Ram Bawa sons of Bansi Lal, residents of Kanachak received multiple splinter injuries this evening in Kanachak area, where Pakistan resorted to heavy firing and shelling of mortars from across the border. They were immediately rushed to Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Jammu, where Gopal Bawa was declared as brought dead by the doctors.
Meanwhile, attendants of the deceased and the injured persons held a protest in and outside Emergency of the hospital over unavailability of doctors and essential medicines in the hospital. They were also joined by attendants of other firing victims admitted in Emergency and disaster ward.
Raising slogans against Health Minister Bali Bhagat, they alleged that there are no proper facilities and doctors to attend even border firing victims. They alleged that they are being made to run from one room to another in search of doctors. Even essential medicines and other allied items are not available and they are bound to purchase them from market.
The protesting attendants were later pacified by senior doctors and CMO on duty, who assured them proper medical facilities in the hospital.
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