AARYAN SHARMA
JAMMU: Super Speciality Hospital (SSH) in Jammu on Thursday disappointed seriously ill patients in need of dialysis after they had to close down the unit for want of adequate water and uninterrupted power supply.
The patients who were scheduled to undergo the critical procedure had to return home disappointed. The doctors on duty in the dialysis unit expressed their inability to carry out the lengthy procedure as they had run out of water supply.
Due to frequent power cuts and lack of back up they also avoided carrying out the procedure and preferred to send them home.
A seriously ill patient’s attendant told STATE TIMES, soon after we arrived here for the dialysis we were informed by the doctors on duty today we are not in a position to do the same due to acute shortage of water and scarcity of electricity. The patients’ attendant vent their ire on the hospital administrators accusing them of playing with the life of critically ill patients as they could not run their super speciality centre.
When contacted Dr S K Bali HOD department of Nephrology said, “a piquant situation is prevailing due to abrupt disruption of power and water, hitting patients in need of dialysis facilities the most.”