Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 21: Showing his serious concern to the present health conditions and situation in Jammu Zone, social activist, and co-convenor of ‘Department of Good Governance and Centre-State Coordination BJP J&K’ Kuldeep Singh Raja, today urged the Health and Medical Education Department to immediately earmark the minimum 50 percent of beds for COVID-19 patients in Private Nursing Homes and Hospitals of the UT.
Kuldeep Singh, in a press release recalled the earlier statement of Atal Dulloo, the Financial Commissioner, J&K-HME regarding roping in of the private hospitals and nursing homes to create additional isolation facilities across Jammu and Kashmir for treating COVID-19 patients.
He said that Union Health Ministry had already asked all the States and Union Territories to ensure assured and uninterrupted emergency health services to the patients. Then, why J&K HME Department is not taking any action against the private hospitals and nursing homes those are refusing to attend even emergency cases or not even providing beds for COVID patients?.
He also urged the Government officials to keep a close eye on the overcharging for treatment at all the private hospitals and labs and ensure a reasonable treatment affordable by all people. He asked the Government to put an end to all the so-called lethargic approach and ensure the appropriate deliveries of 108-102 ambulance services in the public interests and to properly implement all the Central Government sponsored schemes and not to deliberately delay the payments of service providers as all such habitual delays are simply encouraging the corruption.
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