Jammu’s premier healthcare Institutions rank at bottom
The premier government healthcare institutions of winter capital, Government Medical College Hospital Jammu(GMCH), Chest Disease Hospital Jammu and Psychiatric Hospital Jammu believed to be providing top of line facilities as crores have been spent over the years on adding top of line medical equipment’s improving infrastructure are languishing at the bottom with regards to public health facilities offered by associated hospitals in Jammu and Kashmir.
The ranking has been revealed in a recent JK e -Sahaj survey. None of the health institute on Jammu region, either associated hospital, district hospital, CHC or PHC was able to clinch the top spot, as all the those positions were bagged by the Kashmir health institutions.
In the category of district Hospitals too Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar, Jammu came at fourth place, while district hospital Samba is languishing at the bottom.
The Union Territory of J&K has started the implementation of Hospital Management Information System which is named as JK e -Sahaj (Electronic System for Automation of Hospital Administration J&K) in different types of facilities i.e. Tertiary care, District Hospitals, Community Health Centres, Primary Health Centres and some New Type PHCs.
In first phase of implementation 585 facilities have been covered under this initiative and will be further extended to other facilities in phased manner. JK E -Sahaj has been integrated with Rapid Assessment System (RAS) and 104 comprehensive call centre for outbound calling.
However in the same survey first rank has been clinched by relatively new GMC Anantnag followed by Govt. GB Pant Hospital Srinagar, Govt. Lal Ded Hospital, Srinagar, GMC Rajouri and GMC Doda.
In the category of District Hospitals too Govt. Hospital Gandhi Nagar, Jammu came at fourth place, while first rank has been clinched by DH Shopian followed by DH Pulwama, DH Poonch, and DH Handwara. The bottom five under said category are DH Kulgam, DH Budgam, DH Kishtwar, DH Bandipora and DH Samba.
In the category of Associated Hospitals of GMCs, GMC Jammu is in the bottom five along with GMC Baramulla, MCCH Anantnag, Chest Disease Hospital Jammu, Psychiatric Hospital Jammu.
In the category of Community Health Centres (CHCs) , first rank has been clinched by CHC Pampore followed by CHC Tral, CHC Seer, CHC Akhnoor and Emergency Hospital Qazigund. The bottom five under said category are CHC Banihal, CHC Kremshore, CHC Chowki Choura, CHC Kot Bhalwal and CHC Pakherpora.
In the category of Primary Health Centres (PHCs), first rank has been clinched by UPHC S.R Gunj, UPHC Hazratbal, UPHC Batamalloo, PHC Dangiwacha and UPHC SMHS Srinagar. The bottom 05 under said category are PHC Kathar, PHC Sawajian, UPHC Pantha CHowk, PHC Satriyian and PHC Sai.
Hospital Ranking has been assigned for different categories of facilities i.e. Associated Hospitals of Govt. Medical Colleges, District Hospitals, CHCs and PHCs. The ranking has been done on the basis of registration uploaded on the portal of JK e Sahaj from last 7 days on real time basis. The ranking of facilities after the fully acceptance and its implementation shall be held on the basis of Patient feedback Score as per the guidelines of Mera Asptaal App of National level.
