Srinagar (PR): Jammu and Kashmir Civil Society Forum, has expressed dissatisfaction over the role of Covid Advisory Committee constituted last year for the management of COVID 19 crisis. In a statement issued here JKCSF Chairman Abdul Qayoom Wani, citing many reasons, said that the committee’s role was unsatisfactory, primarily by failing to establish an emergency 500 bed covid hospital in Srinagar despite the scientific fore- saying of a severe second wave of covid 19 which we are caught in now.
“When 40% doctors and technical staff in health department that too of leading hospitals like SKIMS, SMHS ,CD Hospital have retired and caused dearth of faculty and technical staff in this pandemic, it simply tells us about the situation of patient care” the statement said
JKCSF has been keeping watch on the delivery of healthcare by virtue of its skilled channels and has desperately observed that loopholes in the still are yet to be corrected. Chairman JKCSF said that some Officers and the heads of the leading hospitals should have been trying to become more loyal than the king than to shoulder the responsibilities as per the aspirations of common people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Chairman said heads of the hospitals and the officers of the health department should shun appeasement policy and should provide actual report to the people at helm of affairs and should not hide or misrepresent the facts in the interest of their personal chairs.
Forum has urged the government to Govt to immediately hire the services of unemployed doctors, paramedical staff on contractual basis to coop up this cry.
It should make public the statistics of availability, consumption and dearth of medications and equipment viz drugs, oxygen, vaccines, Test Kits, PPE Kits and other sensitive technical equipment needed in the emergency both in hospitals and to the field staff. Moreover an emergency COVID 19 Hospital should be established in every district with sufficient oxygen facility stocked there.
Applauding the untiring services of medicos and other frontline warriors of the pandemic, JKCSF demanded that all doctors, health workers, journalists, municipal/ local bodies and other frontline workers who have been put on the special task of any nature for COVID 19 crisis management should be given insurance cover. JKCSF has requested people in general to comply and follow the guidelines and SOPs strictly to prove as the conscious citizens.
