SKIMS , hot bed of coronavirus transmission: Authorities unmoved

Horror stories are coming from SKIMS where authorities have kept Covid-19 positive patients along with non-COVID-19 patients, triggering panic among general patients, attendants, and visitors as well.
According to sources, SKIMS has become a super-spreader of the Covid-19 pandemic as general and Covid-19 positive patients are being kept together in the emergency ward. Dozens of  Covid-19 positive patients were found in the emergency unit when senior doctors made a routine round of the unit on July 29.
Sources added that the Department of Emergency Medicine, SKIMS has already communicated to Director SKIMS A .G.Ahanger in this regard and sought complete isolation of Covid-19 positive patients from general patients and their attendants. They further added during the round doctors found a gross violation of SOPs and social distancing where only 2-meter distance has been maintained between patients.
Professor & Head Emergency Medicine, SKIMS Dr. Showkat Ali Mufti, in a letter No. SIMS/192-01-2020-544-46 Dated 29/07/2020 addressed to Director SKIMS A G Ahangar reads “At present, after rounds today on 29th July 2020, I found 14 confirmed positive patients in the close space of emergency along with other 60 patients and their attendants. The space between couches is less than 2 feet and it has become easy to spread this deadly disease among other people/staff there”, reads a letter as per reports.
The letter further reads, “I could see the panic among the patients and attendants as the positive results of COVID positive patients are pouring in. Some urgent intervention needs to be done”.
Meanwhile, sources said that the current mess and mismanagement of the hospital towards dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic is going to be a disaster not for the hospital only but the negligence will engulf the community as well in days to come. They added the hospital has become a Covid-19 hot spot area, despite repeated complaints to higher-ups, no action has been taken so far.
Earlier, there were reports of a breakdown in oxygen supply in the hospital which created panic among critical patients and their attendants. Another mismanagement of the hospital administration came to fore on Tuesday with revised guidelines for home isolation of very mild/pre-symptomatic/asymptomatic Covid-19 cases turning out to be an abbreviated notice inviting e-tenders for the supply of high-speed diesel at SKIMS on annual rate contract basis on its website. The repeated mismanagement attempts by the hospital administration are being refuted brazenly by the higher-ups.