PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, Jan 31: Despite the regular effort of Jharkhand High Court to improve the system of the only state-run super specialty hospital Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), its condition is yet to improve.
After the Jharkhand High Court questioned the RIMS Director and state government over the appointments through outsourcing, the RIMS management has decided to do regular appointments for the vacant places.
RIMS Public Relation Officer (PRO) Dr Dipendra Kumar Sinha said that there were a few issues because of which the regular appointments were not made but will be done soon.
On the question of the establishment of a genome sequencing machine, he said that the process for the procurement has started and by the end of February RIMS will have the machine in the premises.
When RIMS Director Dr Kameshwar Prasad was contacted for his comment on the issue, he did not receive the call.
Jharkhand High Court on Friday questioned the RIMS director and the state government as to why appointments have been made in the group IV category through outsourcing.
A division bench of Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad were hearing public interest litigation initiated suo moto on the various services and lack of infrastructure of RIMS during the start of the ongoing pandemic.
Earlier, the HC had also pulled up RIMS and the government for their failure to install a genome sequencing machine. The court in a verbal observation had said that the state-run hospital and the government will only wake up from their slumber when the people of the state reach the cremation ground.
A genome sequencing machine is supposed to help medical experts gauge the genetic strain of the pathogen, particularly identifying the variant of the Sars-Cov-2 virus that is afflicting the people at the moment. The machine will also aid in the swift diagnosis of the patients’ ailment.
