Jammu: Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh on Tuesday visited the Government Medical College, Jammu Hospital to enquire about the patients admitted with injuries sustained during Pakistan shelling in the last few days, particularly following “Operation Sindoor”.
Accompanied by the Principal, Jammu, GMC, Dr Ashutosh Gupta, Dr Singh went to different wards where the injured have been hospitalised and also went to the intensive care unit, where two more seriously injured patients have been admitted.
Later talking to media persons, Dr Jitendra Singh placed on record his appreciation of the medical college staff, including the doctors and the nursing staff for their prompt and dedicated service which had made it possible that not a single mortality had happened among those who were admitted with injuries following the Pakistan aggression.
He also appreciated the upgraded facility available in the hospital as a result of which not a single patient had to be referred to any other hospital outside Jammu.
As a medical professional himself, Dr Jitendra Singh said that all the patients hospitalised in GMC Jammu were convulsing very satisfactorily and soon in a position to be discharged.
He said, he was apprehensive about one patient in the Intensive Care Unit who was in a hip surgery for injury but had unfortunately succumbed to a fat embolism which led to a sudden deterioration in his condition with neurological complications.
This patient, he said, is given all critical care management and considering that he is young and suffering from no comorbidities could also be fortunate enough to recover and go home like others.
Later on, the Principal and the staff of the Medical College took Dr Singh around the various new facilities developed in recent years.
He said, he felt particularly proud to see all this because he had himself been a part of this institution for several decades.
Later on, before when Dr Jitendra Singh was about to leave the premises, several members of the Nursing Staff came to meet him and said it was nostalgic to meet him because many of them had been his trainees and junior medical staff and today they are proud to meet him while they were holding top positions in their respective hierarchy.
UNI
