JAMMU, Dec 23: To provide medical aid facilities to the students as well as staff of the campus, the administration of University of Jammu has established a Health Centre inside the campus, but nowadays this health centre get ignored by the administration which exposed the casual approach of the officials towards the health of the students and staff members.
According to the sources the condition of the said centre is miserable and there is only one male doctor appointed where as the Head of Department Biotechnology Prof Manoj Dhar has been given the position of incharge CMO of the centre.
Sources also disclosed that every year JU collect lakhs of rupees in the shape of fee from the students for health facility, but the money was not utilized properly.
“Even the paramedical staff is also not adequate even there is on one to operate the ultrasound machine installed in the centre, due to which the facility is unavailable to the patients” added source.
He maintained that the supply of medicine and other required infrastructure is also unavailable adding that the post of doctor is vacant in the campus and nothing has been done so far to fill.
He also said that the health center has got only one ambulance which is not sufficient but why is he using the medical ambulance for which purposes? But if a student get sick and when need the ambulance then during such situation they are not in a position to send the ambulance.
He said its need to upgrade the facilities in the health Centre and further to adopt a good regulation and well management.
National Secular Forum state president Vikas Sharma said that the doctors appointed there are not available round the clock this is how they are serving the students and many times the it is seen that check was faulty, the doctors made a wrong observation.
He further said that wrongly detected blood pressure and sugar in many of the people that led to panic among the University employees and their families.