Srinagar Garhwal. The five-bed ICU ward built at a cost of about Rs 40 lakh in the Joint Sub-District Hospital located in Srinagar in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand has been stalled for the last three years. Due to its closure, patients are having to rush to big cities. Questions are continuously being raised on the health systems in Srinagar. While Jan Aushadhi Centers for affordable generic medicines have been opened for the patients, the facility of Jan Aushadhi Center is not yet available in the sub-district hospital, due to which the patients have to buy medicines from outside at expensive prices, which is difficult for their treatment. Increases the burden.
People of Srinagar Garhwal say that if ICU and Jan Aushadhi Kendra facilities were available in the sub-district hospital, the patients would not have had to go to big cities. Local resident Jagdish Bhatt told Local 18 that since the inauguration of the hospital, the ICU ward in the sub-district hospital has remained closed, due to which patients have to go to big cities. The ICU ward was established after Covid. After running for a few days the ICU was closed. Jan Aushadhi Kendra is also not open in the sub-district hospital. Affordable generic medicines are not available to patients. Patients are buying medicines from medical stores at expensive prices. Patients from Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Pauri districts come to this hospital.
ICU and Jan Aushadhi Center will be started soon
Medical Superintendent of the Sub-District Hospital, Dr. Vimal Gusai said that his priority is to open the ICU ward and Jan Aushadhi Center in the Sub-District Hospital as soon as possible so that the patients can get ICU facilities in Srinagar itself and they can get treatment. No need to go to big cities. Jan Aushadhi Kendra will also be opened to provide cheap medicines to the patients. All the arrangements of the hospital will be repaired as soon as possible.
FIRST PUBLISHED : December 6, 2024, 7:54 PM IST
