11 years on: Anantnag District Hospital still awaits completion Sameer Ahmad

 

Anantnag: The massive catchment area comprising tens of thousands of people in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district depend primarily on this district hospital for the basic health facilities but the authorities continuously ignore it plunging the locals into plethora of miseries. The lone district hospital has no Drainage system in which the patients who are admitted in wards having threat of infection some of the attendants of patients told to Kashmir Age.

The project was to construct three new blocks for 300-bed Mirza Afzal Beg Memorial Hospital (MABMH) was sanctioned way back in 2007 and Jammu and Kashmir Project Constructions Corporation (JKPCC) was set year 2010 as the deadline for its completion.

After 11 years, the district Hospital Anantnag still awaits completion and lacks some basic facilities, the hospital have no drainage system in which the patients who are admitted in wards having threat of infection.

Sources told to Kashmir Age that the hospital hasn’t own drainage system the government has failed to made drainage system in hospital. The Drainage system in hospital is idle all sewage is stored behind the hospital lives patients put on risk in wards, sources added.

Talking to Kashmir Age CMO Dr Fazil Kochak said that the hospital drainage system is not behind hospital the drainage system is in front of hospital and said that I will look into the matter.

 

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