Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 17: Voicing serious concern over “messy” condition of SMHS hospital, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today blamed “incompetent and inefficient” Principal Government Medical College (GMC) for the sorry state of affairs of Valley’s largest tertiary care hospital.
In a statement here, the DAK president Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan lamented the “re-employed Principal GMC, Rafiq Ahmad Pampori for “completely mishandling” the affairs of SMHS hospital. “It is because of his ineptness that SMHS hospital is in complete shambles. The premier hospital is in a sorry state of affairs because of incompetent and inefficient head,” he said.
Raising alarm over “lack of emergency department” in SMHS hospital, Dr Nisar said due its absence the patient care is the worst causality. “Accident and emergency department in SMHS hospital is confined to papers and sign boards only while as on ground it is being run by students and Assistant Surgeons who lack proper training to deal with critically ill patients,” he said.
The DAK president said the emergency department is the backbone of a tertiary care hospital and has to have separate staff of senior consultants, junior consultants and paramedics specially trained and qualified in handling critically sick patients.
“It is ironical that emergency patients in SMHS hospital are dealt by postgraduate students of other departments who are not trained for critical care and cannot handle complex cases,” he said.
He said that keeping students for managing critically sick patients is unethical as it is responsible for poor patient outcomes.
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