Sajid Raina
Bandipora, Sep 27: The district Hospital Bandipora in northern Kashmir is awaiting installation of the CT scan machine that was announced by the health authorities about two years ago.
The Director, Health Services Kashmir, had taken a decision to install the CT scan-128 slice in the hospital under languishing project 2020. However, two years have gone by but the machine has not been installed in the hospital.
A doctors posted in the hospital said that the due to non-installation of the CT scan machine, they have to refer emergency and trauma patients to Srinagar hospitals. The hospital has enough infrastructure, but lacks essential equipment like CT-scan, they said.
Khursheed Ahmad, a local said that the CT-scan facility should be made functional at hospital as soon as possible. “Almost 80 percent accident cases are being shifted to city hospitals because of CT-scan. So it will be better if the same facility will be available here,” he added.
Similarly, Muhammad Ayoub, another local said that there’s immediate need of CT-scan facility at the hospital.
An official said that despite their repeated requests over the last two years to the higher authorities their demands have not been met.
He said that various accident-related cases — where it is an imperative to know the extent of internal injuries — are being shifted to city hospitals because of the lack of a CT scan machine.
