Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 3: Expressing surprise over the awarding of first prize to Jammu & Kashmir State by a private major institution India Today for excellence in the health care, the former Union Minister and MLA, Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta observed that not to say of being far from satisfactory conditions in the rural and urban healthcare Centres, even the plight of the two major Government Medical Colleges has reached to a point of being threatened of getting derecognized by the Medical Council of India. The latest report of CAG is also significant in this regard.
Prof. Gupta in a statement pointed out that during NDA rule in 2003-04, the then Health Minister, Sushma Swaraj while laying the foundation stone for raising the status of Jammu Medical College to that All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) level, had provided the amount of Rs. 120 Crore for the purpose and the project was to be completed within five years. But over 8 years have passed the scheme of things are still a dream. The Medical College itself is faced with an acute paucity of staff, not only at the lower level, even the qualified doctors are not being provided, he added and said that nothing can be more deplorable that the trained doctors are jobless and searching for adjustment outside the State. The State Government has come to be a mute spectator.
Prof. Gupta pointed out that it was amusing to see the Chief Minister receiving the said award especially when some months back he himself had bemoaned over the plight of the Healthcare Centres of the State.
He regretted that there are many contradictions itself in the statistics. On one hand the birth rate in the State is being recorded as the lowest but on the contrary the Census figures depict other picture by registering highest increase in the growth of the population of this State, so much so that the population of some districts have been recorded more than doubled, rather tripled during the past three decades. Some districts are presenting an amazing growth rate to the extent of 45 to 47 per cent in a decade. This is also recoils over the Health Care sector of the State and needed an explanation that how all this was happening.
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