The Critical Care Center is to be built in place of the Civil Surgeon’s office

In the middle of the planned destruction of the Civil Surgeon’s office in Jalandhar, where a Critical Care Center is to be built, ninety staff people, including the Civil Surgeon, and several district documents going back to the 1940s had nowhere allocated for them to go. The employees of the CS office are scrambling to find room from other departments and blocks in an obvious example of bureaucratic incompetence and poor planning.

The current CS office will be replaced by the projected Critical Care Center, a multi-story, five-story, 100-bed structure funded by the Central Bank of India. Regarding the matter, the Jalandhar Deputy Commissioner, Medical Superintendent, and Director of Health have all received letters from the Civil Surgeon. PWD officials said that the project’s contracting procedure would begin shortly, but as of right now, CS office staff members have nowhere else to go.

The National Health Mission, the Statistical branch (which manages birth and death records), the Health branch, the Reimbursement branch, the Establishment branch, the Accounts branch, the Food branch, the Epidemiologist (IDSP), the Malaria branch, and the Dental branch are the branches that are currently managed out of the Civil Surgeon’s office. Ninety people work at the CS office, including program officers, senior assistants, superintendents, epidemiologists, and employees in health and family welfare in addition to clerks, drivers, computer operators, and Class IV workers.

The CS office building also has a record storage and at least ninety almirahs, of which eighty include just the district’s 1945 birth and death data. These data include neighboring districts in addition to Jalandhar.

An estimated Rs 33.28 crore would be spent on the construction of the Critical Care Center, which will be erected at the location under the Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission.

All of these departments cannot be housed at any of the other locations that have been suggested for the shift.

Other locations under consideration are the now-closed Old Age Home premises at the back of the hospital, five to seven rooms saved from the Mother and Child Care (MCH) Center, a few rooms in the basement of the Civil Hospital, and a few rooms on the top floor of the de-addiction unit. But apart from the Old Age Home (which is in terrible need of painting and repairs), none of the other buildings or rooms have been abandoned, nor are they sufficiently large.

The Jalandhar Medical Superintendent received a letter from the Civil Surgeon lately requesting 31 rooms and 40–50 car parking spaces. areas examined at Urban CHC PAP, CHC Dada Colony,

It was also discovered that the De-Addiction Center in the hamlet of Sheikha, CHC Khurla Kingra, and Basti Gujan were insufficient for moving the CS office there.

If not, all of these employees’ cars are parked at the present CS office together with a large number of government and ambulance vehicles.

“The sites that are currently being offered are not big enough to house the entire CS office,” Jalandhar civil surgeon Dr. Jagdeep Chawla said. The corresponding staff members have not left any of the other vacancies. We are looking for a different location, which should become available shortly.

“We are awaiting approval on the unit’s tendering process,” said Gurmeet Singh, XEN, PWD. The permission is anticipated in a day or two, after which the work will begin and the bidding procedure will take 21 days to a month to finish.

Adarsh Pal Kaur, director of health and family welfare, stated: “The CS office personnel is being shifted to a necessary alternative arrangement. The building won’t be torn down until the next location is ready. The utmost degree of attention is being given to this.