Anantnag, August 17: The Maternity and Child Care Hospital (MCCH) is not able to fully implement the centrally supported programmes Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSYK) and National Health Mission (NHM), which would greatly benefit the pregnant women and babies who get care there.
Patients are given with no-cost access to life-sustaining medications and other services via these flagship schemes.
A doctor at MCCH said that they were low on various medications, including those used to induce labour, and that this was causing their low-income patients to have to buy these medications elsewhere.
It’s been a while since these medications were acquired under the JSSK and NHM programmes, he added.
One medical worker lamented that the facility lacked even basic supplies like disposables and cleaning material.
Furthermore, “there is also a dearth of surgical instruments and other vital equipment hitting overall patient care badly,” he stated.
If the hospital’s patient volume is any indication, at least 20 delivery sets are needed, yet the facility only has eight.
Also, he complained that there were only two delivery tables instead of the minimum recommended eight.
A medical worker expressed concern that there were only two suction machines accessible.
He said that there were just two sofas available for use during births.
However, for patients who are about to go into labour, it is preferable to have motorised beds that can be easily transformed into delivery couches. A medical professional remarked that this would eliminate the need to ‘heavily exercise’ the patient by having them go from bed to trolley or wheelchair and then to delivery couch.
The treatment he received in the hospital after giving birth was, in his opinion, deplorable.
The doctor said that urban hospitals were being sent patients because of a shortage of resources.
Referral situations need the use of transportable ventilators, which he noted were not in stock.
“Doctors are wary of trusting research results due to the biochemistry lab’s constraints. As a result, “the doctor noted, many people are turning to private laboratories for their testing needs.
He said that the high risk of cross infections was due in part to the inadequacy of the sterilising facilities.
A medical professional expressed concern that pregnant women lacked access to a convenient pick-up and drop-off service.
In order to get their loved ones to and from the hospital, he noted, “often, patients’ attendants are forced to hire cabs.”
Concerns were also raised by patients that they were not receiving enough benefits from the programmes set up to improve their health.
Abdul Rashid, a Kokernag patient’s attendant, stated, “We are forced to purchase drugs and disposable items from the market here.”
He said that many low-income households lack the financial resources to employ taxis to bring their sick loved ones to medical appointments.
Dr. Anjum Farhana, the principal of the Government Medical College (GMC) in Anantnag, has promised that the problems you’ve raised would be addressed at the Medical College of Central Hospital.
She promised that she had surveyed the hospital’s resources and would work to guarantee that all new moms and infants there received excellent care.
For the sake of her patients, Dr. Farhana vowed to undertake any and all required programmes.
Officials have maintained that the hospital’s current location in a rundown building in the crowded Sherbagh neighbourhood would only be resolved after the facility is relocated to the Rehmat-e-Alam hospital on K P Road.
