Patient care facilities provided to the Covid-19 patients inside Government Medical college hospital in Jammu have come under the scanner following increasing number of deaths of patients including those with no comorbidities.
On Wednesday 28 patients succumbed to the virus across Jammu region and 24 across Kashmir while 4,716 fresh cases of coronavirus were detected taking the tally of active positive cases to 39628.
Since May 1, a total number of 146 patients have succumbed to the coronavirus across Jammu region and 82 in Kashmir while 6656 patients tested positive across Jammu division and 13845 across Kashmir division.
According to the media bulletin, "Majority of these deaths have been reported in GMC Jammu". Several caretakers on Wednesday, while waiting outside the mortuary of the hospital complex leveled serious allegations against the poor patient care facilities provided to the patients.
An employee of the GMC after losing his daughter due to Covid 19 alleged, "after my daughter was admitted in the hospital I requested senior faculty to monitor her condition and provide quality patient care services to save her life". He alleged, "despite my regular pleas in front of the nursing staff present inside the ward my daughter was not attended to. Even the medicines prescribed were not administered to her by the nursing staff and no senior doctor visited the ward to supervise the patient care services".
Weeping inconsolably he said, "I lost my daughter in front of my eyes. No senior doctor came there to save her life."
Another aggrieved son, while waiting for the dead body of his father claimed, "when we were attending to our patient no one stopped us from being present there and now when our patient has died they are not handing over his dead body to us claiming they are following a protocol . The son asked, "why no such protocol of patient care was followed when the patient was alive and was in need of better patient care facilities". They all appealed to the government to hold a detailed inquiry and punish the guilty for not discharging their duties inside the ward.