Irshad Hussain
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Srinagar Lawaypora Trauma Hospital remains unfunctional. The Jammu and Kashmir administration has completely failed to make the trauma hospital functional since the past eighteen years.
According to sources, residents of Lawaypora Srinagar had allotted four kanals of land for the establishment of the trauma hospital in the year 2004.
The Roads and Building Department (R&B) had started its construction in the same year. Although the construction of the hospital has been completed, it has still not been handed over to the health department due to a misconstrued ramp.
Locals say that after the abrogation of the Article 370, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) tried to enter the hospital premises, but the locals of the area resisted them.
Adil Ahmed, a local, has to say that because the Srinagar Baramullah National highway is prone to road accidents, many trauma patients are shifted to the other hospitals in Srinagar every day when they meet with deadly accidents on the national highway.
“People of the area continue to suffer, previous successive governments have neglected the project,” Adil said.
The Kashmiriyat contacted Financial Commissioner to the health department, Atal Dullo, who said that they were working on it and told us that the hospital will be functional soon.