Jahangeer Ganaie
Anantnag, Jul 6: Patients are suffering due to non-availability of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) facility at Government Medical College Hospital in Anantnag.
Patients said that in absence of MRI, they are forced to visit private diagnostic centres.
Mohammad Yaseen, a patient from Anantnag said that doctors advised him to go for an MRI but in absence of the facility at the GMC, patients like him are forced to visit private diagnostic centres.
He said that it costs Rs 5000-6000 for a patient to undergo an MRI at a private diagnostic centre.
“Many patients like me visit clinics to get MRI done at private diagnostic centres. Those who don’t afford it have no option but to give up,” said Showkat Ahmad.
Patients said that poor patients are suffering mainly as they are unable to bear the expenses of the scan, hence their treatment gets delayed.
They requested the concerned authorities to set the facility as a hospital so that poor people won’t suffer people. .
Meanwhile, Principal GMC Anantnag Tariq Ahmad Qureshi said that very soon an MRI facility will be available at the hospital.
He said that an MRI facility at the hospital is in the pipeline and by November this year an MRI facility will be available at the hospital.
