While the attraction for private hospitals is rising unprecedentedly year after year due to better maintenance of healthcare infrastructural facilities and efficient management of manpower facilities, the government hospitals in Jammu & Kashmir are fast loosing public attraction due to poor maintenance of healthcare infrastructural facilities and poor management of manpower facilities. Keeping in view the fact that though efficient doctors and paramedics are available at government hospitals but poor manpower planning and management has brought the delivery of health services in government hospitals on absolutely a non functional mode. Though sanitation has to be as good a priority in government hospitals as it is in private hospitals but sanitation teams are seen doing the job of cleanliness round the clock only in private hospitals and not in government hospitals. Shocking it is that while even lavatories in even most of the top referred hospitals are not functional, doctors and paramedics in most of the referral hospitals are seen taking out brooms for sweeping on the eve of world environment day in the premises of the hospitals just as part of their abortive attempts to appease the top helmsmen in the government. While heating systems installed in most of the main referral government hospitals in twin capital cities and major towns of Jammu & Kashmir decades ago and replaced and upgraded from time to time are partially operational, similar heating facilities are fully operational round the clock in private hospitals due to their proper maintenance and proper handling despite the fact that some of the private hospitals have been established only few years ago. Had doctors and paramedics shown better civic sense the patients and the visitors at the hospitals would have also used with care the lavatories and also the heating systems which in most of the wards of most of the top referral hospitals have been damaged and left as they are without any repairs and replacements.
Keeping in view the fact that better manpower planning and increased focus on maintenance of infrastructural facilities could have made government hospitals the preferred destinations for people in both urban and rural hospitals of the government but better delivery of healthcare services in private hospitals shows their growing influence over the government hospitals both in Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division. Now when Jammu & Kashmir is stated to be topping the list in budget spending on health sector among all the states and the union territories of the country, the people in both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division would be glad to see government focusing on manpower planning and proper maintenance of infrastructural facilities for the purposes of better healthcare services in government run hospitals.
Government is establishing hospitals even in the remotest of the remote areas putting in huge investment for improving the standards of healthcare facilities across Jammu & Kashmir but the delivery of services is very poor either due to non availability of doctors and paramedics or due to lack of even basic diagnostic facilities. Keeping in view the fact that better manpower planning and increased focus on maintenance of infrastructural facilities could have made government hospitals the preferred destinations for people in both urban and rural hospitals of the government but better delivery of healthcare services in private hospitals shows their growing influence over the government hospitals both in Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division. Now when Jammu & Kashmir is stated to be topping the list in budget spending on health sector among all the states and the union territories of the country, the people in both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division would be glad to see government focusing on manpower planning and proper maintenance of infrastructural facilities for the purposes of better healthcare services in government run hospitals.
