Except one small bitterness the experience was heart-winning.

We have a vast network of healthcare units spread in length and breadth of the state with a huge budgetary allocation. But alas! Much of our healthcare units are decaying. The primary and secondary healthcare system located in countryside is worst hit. These units lack proper management and the tender touch of medical ethics. At block, tehsil and district headquarters too, the situation is not satisfactory. This situation of quandary in our basic healthcare system has impeded the whole referral chain and strained much of our specialized healthcare units mostly located in urban areas.

My personal experience was different and fortunately ended at a positive note. After getting a sound harassment from private healthcare mafia for more than a month a sincere cardiologist true to his medical ethics advised me to have specialized treatment either at SKIMS or somewhere outside the state. We tried our best to go for the second option but my heart gave way much sooner than expected and landed at critical care unit of SKIMS. Surely, SKIMS is the true manifestation of late Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah’s visionary leadership; a marvellous conception of specialized treatment center and a potential hub of medical tourism. Out of all the departments’ cardiology department at SKIMS is comparatively in a better shape. Here my blood vascular system was put to advance X-ray guided scanning procedure—known as angiography in medical parlance. True to the apprehensions of the doctor who referred me to SKIMS, doctors decided to go for interventional procedure of angioplasty to ease out the obstructions in my vascular system.

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