Excelsior Correspondent
KISHTWAR, Dec 27: Senior Congress leader and member Kissan Development Board while expressing his grave concern over the shortage of staff in District Hospital Kishtwar has urged the authorities immediately fill up the vacant posts of doctors and para medical staff in the Kishtwar.
In a statement issued here, today, he said due to lack of doctors, paramedical staff and nursing orderlies the patents admitted in the hospital or those coming for treatment from far off places of the district are facing many hardships and some times even patients die due to lack of proper care as the Hospital is running short of staff resulting into public resentment and protests.
Mr Bhandari while turning the attention of the authorities towards the issue said D H Kathua has one post of Anesthesia specialist, one dermatologist, one pathologist, one child specialist, one consultant Dentist, 12 assistant surgeons, one blood bank technician, one head pharmacist, three junior pharmacists, one Nursing orderly, one chowkidar, one washer man, eight sweepers, eight X-ray technicians senior, one junior X-ray technician, three senior theatre technicians, three junior technicians, one senior Ophthalmologist, one senior grade nurse, three junior grade nurses, one X-ray boy, one Ward boy, one nursing supervisor , one generator operator, one plumber, one lab boy and one senior nursing orderly posts vacant.
He said these all posts are sanctioned for the Hospital but the authorities have failed to fill up them till date with the result the Hospital is running with shortage of staff.
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