{"id":90,"date":"2014-04-02T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/skims-curtail-attendants-visiting-hours\/"},"modified":"2014-04-02T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T14:50:00","slug":"skims-curtail-attendants-visiting-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"SKIMS curtail attendants\u2019 visiting hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b style=\"color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">People aghast; Director says move aimed for better healthcare<\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><b>Srinagar:<\/b><\/span> The attendants of the patients admitted at SKIMS&nbsp;Wednesday&nbsp;expressed serious resentment over the decision of the hospital authorities of disallowing the entry of the attendants inside state\u2019s only multi specialty research institute.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">According to the details received by KNS, the authorities at SKIMS have curtailed the number of attendants entering the institute on daily basis. The reason the officials stated was that the normal functioning of the hospital was getting badly affected and extra rush inside the crucial wards was disturbing the treatment of the patients. &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Expressing resentment by the said decision, the attendants told KNS that the authorities have taken the step in the most \u2018anarchical\u2019 approach and the same is an attempt to make the attendants suffer at large.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The attendants while protesting against the hospital order stated that they have come from valley\u2019s far flung areas and only after reaching at the hospital gate- their entry is being rejected. \u201cIf the hospital authorities had to implement the order from today- they should have informed the masses via print and electronic media so that people coming from far off areas could have been informed.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Meanwhile, Director SKIMS told KNS that visiting hours for the attendants have been restricted from&nbsp;3.30 pm to 5.30 pm&nbsp;and no visiting passes shall be issued after that. By&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/6.pm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">6.pm<\/span><\/a>, the hospital authorities must be able to vacate the attendants who see their patients during the visiting hours. \u201cThis all has been done in the interest of smooth functioning of the hospital and for the better patient care. The general public is appealed to cooperate with the SKIMS authorities so that we provide a better health care for their patients,\u201d said Showkat Ahmad Zargar, Director SKIMS.(KNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People aghast; Director says move aimed for better healthcare Srinagar: The attendants of the patients admitted at SKIMS&nbsp;Wednesday&nbsp;expressed serious resentment over the decision of the hospital authorities of disallowing the entry of the attendants inside state\u2019s only multi specialty research institute. According to the details received by KNS, the authorities at SKIMS have curtailed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}