DC pays surprise visit to hospital
Excelsior Correspondent
MENDHAR, Sept 25: Due to shortage of doctors and staff in the Sub District Hospital (SDH) Mendhar in Poonch district, patients are facing problems every day.
Report said that many posts of specialist doctors are lying vacant in the hospital, due to non-availability of paediatric specialist, gynaecologist, surgeon, anaesthesia and others, patients are forced to go to outside the district.
District Development Commissioner (DDC) Poonch Yasin M Chaudhary, on assuming charge, made his first visit to Sub District Hospital Mendhar, where he inquired about the condition of the patients and also visited the hospital along with the hospital administration. He observed that the condition of the hospital was turning from bad to worse. When he asked Block Medical Officer Dr Ashfaq Ahmed how many doctors/staff are there and do you have any machinery. All the information was provided to him by BMO, after which he was seen angry.
After this visit of DC Poonch, local people including Sanatan Sabha president Balram Sharma, Kafeel Khan, Sanjeev Kumar social activists, Om Prakash, Naseer Chaudhary, Shariq Khan and others said that now we are seeing some ray of hope. They said we have been pleading with the District administration including Chief Medical Officer (CMO)/ Director Health for a long time that there is a shortage of doctors and other staff in the hospital of Mendhar. But now after DC himself has seen the condition on the ground it is hoped that he may take up the issue strongly with concerned Director and Commissioner Secretary Health and Medical Education.
Locals demanded that the condition of the Sub District Hospital Mendhar should be improved and the vacant posts of doctors and other staff here should be filled up immediately so that patients do not have to go outside district and state for treatment.
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