STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: District Congress Committee (Urban), Jammu, expressed concern over the miserable and poor condition of Government Medical College (GMC) and Hospital Jammu.
In the meeting held here on Saturday, President DCC Urban, Anil Chopra said that few days back on the complaint of general public and the patients of GMC that the hospital administration is not able to provide them proper medical facility, even the patients were not able to get the first aid facility and the patients need to get the medicines from outside as the hospital haven’t sufficient.
“The swift action was taken by the District Congress Committee and a team of DCC functionaries led by him visited the hospital and interacted with patients and attendants and after getting the feedback of the poor medical facility and dismal sanitation in the hospital discussed this serious issue with the superintendent and principal of GMC,” he said.
Chopra said that after few days of this incident, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti held a surprise visit to the hospital premises and found the same condition discussed by District Congress Committee. Subsequently, the Chief Minister expressed displeasure over the poor sanitation in the hospital including the condition of wash rooms, beds, bedding and other material and directed improvement in the same.
The Chief Minister on spot ordered the attachment of Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, Dr. Dara Singh which shows the failure of the ruling party in all the fronts especially in the Health and Medical Department.
District Congress Committee, on the behalf of general public, sought resignation of the Health Minister as they are playing with the lives of innocent and needy people.
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