Srinagar: The president of Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Friday expressed shock over the death of a 3 year old child who died due to non availability of ambulance driver at primary health care centre in north Kashmirs Lalpora area of Lolab in Kupwara district.
In a statement, the DAK president Nisar-ul-Hassan, said: It is crime to refer a critically sick patient in a passenger sumo who died while on way to Sogam. How can you keep an ambulance without a driver which is needed round the clock for ferrying sick patients?
He said the child could have been saved if he was put on life support and ferried in a critical care ambulance.
The statement of health officials that the driver was on leave and there was no substitute is highly irresponsible and an indicator of the apathy of the authorities and their disrespect for human life, he said, adding: It is pathetic that our peripheral health centers lack basic life saving equipment and ambulances are as good as trucks thus risking lives of sick patients.
The DAK president said there are neither child specialists nor facilities available in peripheral health care and all critical pediatric patients are reffered to Srinagar who invariably die in transit.
Nisar-ul-Hassan said the children died to negligence and guilty must be punished.
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