Visit to Govt. Dist hospital, Udhampur, Jammu
Thanks to Dr. sarita Sood. It was a pleasure for me to travel long distance with her. This daughter is very special to me. And she is a very good driver. Intrust her judgment on road safety for comfortable ride. She was counseling supervisor of the GFATM program who had to assess the counsellor at this hospital. I was interested to visit some of the District hospitals in Jammu & Kashmir to understand the state of affairs of the nursing personnel in the extreme north. When I got the chance, I opted to visit the Udhampur hospital, postponing certain other programs in Jammu. I visited four hospitals in Jammu and the conditions were more or less the same. Nurses were very much dedicated to the well being of the patients. Medical superintendent Dr. Chander Prakash and Deputy Superintendent Dr. Deepak greeted us in the hospital. Dr. Chander called the two nursing supervisors- Sr. Santhosh Sharma and Sr. Uma Pradhan who took me to a round trip to the whole hospital. There were only 25 nurses in the hospital. Under the Nursing supervisors, worked 7 senior nursing staff. There were five junior nursing staff and 2 were from National Rural Health mission. In addition to these 14 nurses, there were 9 multi purpose ANM staff in the hospital. The hospital had 146 in patients in different wards. I could not believe that nearly 200 patients visit the Gynaec OPD. On the average , 10-12 deliveries were taking place in the hospital out of which 3or 4 were Caesarian cases. Gynaec ward had 28 beds, Paediatric ward had 24 beds, Mdical ward had 40 beds for both Female and Male sub wards, Surgical ward had 20 beds, Ortho had 18, ENT 8 and Ophthal 8 beds. The superintendent told me that it was 200 bed hospital even though it is running short of capacity as the in patients were only 146 due to shortage of nurses. The in- patient to nurses ratio was 1:6. I could see many nursing students in the wards and in OPD.
I thought: These nurses were working very hard and they said they were happy to do the work. They learned to experience happiness under extreme stress situations.
Again it is proved that happiness is a state of mind. It is prersent where ever we are and what ever we do. Happiness improves our mental health, and contributes to our psychological well being.
Dr. Chander invited me to address the medical students. The activity was postponed to next year due to lack of time and packed schedule of my programs in Jammu.
Thanks to Dr. sarita Sood. It was a pleasure for me to travel long distance with her. This daughter is very special to me. And she is a very good driver. Intrust her judgment on road safety for comfortable ride. She was counseling supervisor of the GFATM program who had to assess the counsellor at this hospital. I was interested to visit some of the District hospitals in Jammu & Kashmir to understand the state of affairs of the nursing personnel in the extreme north. When I got the chance, I opted to visit the Udhampur hospital, postponing certain other programs in Jammu. I visited four hospitals in Jammu and the conditions were more or less the same. Nurses were very much dedicated to the well being of the patients. Medical superintendent Dr. Chander Prakash and Deputy Superintendent Dr. Deepak greeted us in the hospital. Dr. Chander called the two nursing supervisors- Sr. Santhosh Sharma and Sr. Uma Pradhan who took me to a round trip to the whole hospital. There were only 25 nurses in the hospital. Under the Nursing supervisors, worked 7 senior nursing staff. There were five junior nursing staff and 2 were from National Rural Health mission. In addition to these 14 nurses, there were 9 multi purpose ANM staff in the hospital. The hospital had 146 in patients in different wards. I could not believe that nearly 200 patients visit the Gynaec OPD. On the average , 10-12 deliveries were taking place in the hospital out of which 3or 4 were Caesarian cases. Gynaec ward had 28 beds, Paediatric ward had 24 beds, Mdical ward had 40 beds for both Female and Male sub wards, Surgical ward had 20 beds, Ortho had 18, ENT 8 and Ophthal 8 beds. The superintendent told me that it was 200 bed hospital even though it is running short of capacity as the in patients were only 146 due to shortage of nurses. The in- patient to nurses ratio was 1:6. I could see many nursing students in the wards and in OPD.
I thought: These nurses were working very hard and they said they were happy to do the work. They learned to experience happiness under extreme stress situations.
Again it is proved that happiness is a state of mind. It is prersent where ever we are and what ever we do. Happiness improves our mental health, and contributes to our psychological well being.
Dr. Chander invited me to address the medical students. The activity was postponed to next year due to lack of time and packed schedule of my programs in Jammu.
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