Patients in South Kashmir have to pay extra money for certain medical tests in private clinics. They have been left with no option but to get their tests conducted in private as from past one month due to flawed system, no Serology tests are being conducted at Government Medical College Anantnag.
Besides, Serology tests, Troponin tests are also not being conducted in the hospital.
A troponin test measures the level of troponin in the blood. Troponin is a type of protein found in the muscles of the heart while Serology tests detect the presence of antibodies in the blood from the body’s adaptive immune response to an infection, like Covid-19.
Attendants told news agency Kashmir News Trust that they used to pay Rs 120 for 3 Serology tests in the hospital while the same tests cost them Rs 600 in the market. Similarly for Troponin test they have to spend Rs 700 in private as compared to Rs 380 they earlier used to pay in the hospital.
The attendants further said that instead of receiving a printed receipt for any test conducted in the hospital, now they receive hand-written receipts as some of the employees say that printer in the hospital has developed some fault last week.
Principal GMC Anantnag Dr Syed Tariq Qureshi who camps in administrative block at Dyalgam, some 3 kilometers away from the hospital told KNT that he will visit Government Medical College to ascertain the facts. “I will look into the matter,” he added. (KNT)