With National Institution for Transforming India, NITI Ayog naming three hospitals of Jammu & Kashmir one from Srinagar and two from two districts of North Kashmir Baramulla and Bandipora among the top performing district hospitals of the country, the doctors and paramedics of these hospitals deserve all praise for the good work they have done amid unprecedented covid-19 stress on hospitals in Jammu & Kashmir like several other parts of the country. Since the NITI Ayog has itself said that the best practices of three top performing J&K hospitals noticed and authenticated by it need to be documented for the purposes of replication in other hospitals elsewhere in the country, the health & medical education department of Jammu & Kashmir in the very first instance can itself replicate these best practices in other hospitals of Jammu & Kashmir. The practices of these top performing hospitals if replicated in other hospitals of Jammu & Kashmir would set a new trend in the improvement of health care facilities at government run hospitals across Jammu & Kashmir. Much better would it be for even the private hospitals and nursing homes of Jammu & Kashmir to replicate the practices of these top performing hospitals at their healthcare facilities. True it is that government has to provide basic health infrastructure to government run hospitals but equally true it is that pursuing best medical practices for the optimum use of available health infrastructure is the duty of doctors’ and paramedics and as such doctors and paramedics should get inspiration from their professional contemporaries of all the three top performing J&K hospitals. JLNM hospital Srinagar ranked first in the C-Section rate against the total number of deliveries performed in a year including normal and assisted deliveries would surely show the way to perfection in child births if the practices pursued by JLNM hospital are replicated by maternity hospitals in twin capital cities-Srinagar and Jammu and peripheral government hospitals elsewhere in Jammu & Kashmir.
The heads of all the three top performing hospitals deserve rewards for the leadership roles they have played in upgrading the health practices at all the three top performing hospitals of Jammu & Kashmir. We must find a way to reward doctors who are caring and compassionate. It’s a hard job particularly in a situation like covid stress on hospitals across the country.
Similarly Support Services & availability of diagnostic testing services have to be replicated in other hospitals of Jammu & Kashmir to improve the standards of basic patient care facilities at all the government run hospitals across Jammu & Kashmir. Bandipora hospital getting it’s name recorded in best performing hospitals too shows that hospital administration at this hospital is in a mode of complete perfection and as such practices pursued by the hospital management at this hospital too have to be replicated in other hospitals in Jammu & Kashmir for the purposes of achieving perfection in the matters of bed occupancy. The heads of all the three top performing hospitals deserve rewards for the leadership roles they have played in upgrading the health practices at all the three top performing hospitals of Jammu & Kashmir. We must find a way to reward doctors who are caring and compassionate. It’s a hard job particularly in a situation like covid stress on hospitals across the country.
