Health minister inaugurates cath lab, A block at GMC in south Kashmir’s Anantnag 

Anantnag, Feb 20: Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Health and Medical Education Sakeena Itoo Thursday inaugurated the cath lab at GMC Anantnag.

She also inaugurated the diagnostic and main casualty block approved seventeen years ago in 2007 when the facility was a district hospital.

The establishment of cath Lab at GMC Anantnag will save many lives, as patients from the four southern districts of Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama, and Shopian will no longer have to undertake long journeys to Srinagar, losing precious time.

The facility will also help reduce the burden on Srinagar’s hospitals.

GMC Anantnag will be the first among the eight new medical colleges in Jammu & Kashmir to introduce a Cath Lab service for its patients.

The diagnostic and casualty block inaugurated today will also reduce the burden on GMC Anantnag which has two main blocks A and C operational besides the old building.

Way back in 2007, a project to construct three new blocks for the erstwhile Mirza Afzal Beg Memorial Hospital (MAMB) was sanctioned and the JKPCC, the executing agency, set a three-year deadline for its completion.

The paucity of funds and sluggish work marred the project even as the hospital was elevated to medical college in the year 2019.

The building was supposed to have a ground and four floors but now it has been reduced to just two floors.

Ground and first floor stand completed while the work on the third floor and truss is on.