Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 19: All J&K 1947 POJK Sharnarthi Intellectual Forum held a meeting under the chairmanship of Advocate Amrik Singh and joined by Surjit Singh General Secretary of Forum.
The Forum expressed concern over the large scale casualties of J&K UT people due to COVID pandemic.
“Neither the beds are available nor the doctors and para medical staff is available in hospitals. People are frightened to get admit in GMC and other local hospitals because they don’t expect their recovery due to the carelessness and shortage of infrastructure in hospitals. The patients are dying unattended and they feel better to go for home quarantine rather than admission in hospitals”, Amrik Singh said.
The Forum reiterated that the UT administration is showing non seriousness towards people care due to which the deaths in Jammu region is much higher than that of Kashmir region.
Amrik Singh and Surjit Singh elaborated that black marketers and stock hoarders are busy in looting the innocent people and no department including the JMC is bothered to have proper checking over the essential commodities.
They urged the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to personally intervene and convert the banquet and marriage halls into COVID centres like other States and provide sufficient beds and ventilators and also recall the retired medical and paramedical staff. “Emergency call centre should be installed for carrying out the Ambulance transport facilities to the rural areas”, they added.
The members who joined the meeting via video conferencing were Inder Singh Sooden Corporator Ward No 44, Jagjit Singh, Publicity Secretary, Paramjit Singh Shingari, Kuldeep Singh, Retd Grp Capt HS Sudan, Prof KD Singh, Nasib Singh, Prem Singh Ex AGM of Nationalised Bank, etc.
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