UDHAMPUR, July 16 -- Cancer patients in Udhampur are raising alarm after being left without essential medicines for the past about four months. The crisis began following the conversion of the District Hospital into the Associated Government Medical College (GMC) Udhampur - a move intended to upgrade healthcare services but which has so far caused immense hardship for critically ill patients.
"When this was just a District Hospital, we received our medicines on time. Since it became GMC, everything has slowed down," said a cancer patient currently undergoing treatment. "If the delay continues, the treatment we've already undergone will become useless."
According to patients and their families, repeated visits to the hospital have yielded ...