GMC Jammu withdraws Staff Alert Directive amid Cross-border tensions

Srinagar: The Government Medical College Hospital (GMCH) Jammu has officially withdrawn a circular it issued on April 25, 2025, which had instructed hospital staff to remain on high alert due to reported cross-border tensions in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. 

The earlier circular, issued by the Medical Superintendent of GMCH Jammu, had directed all staff to remain on high alert and ensure complete preparedness to meet any exigencies that may arise at any time. These measures included keeping essential medicines and critical equipment ready, limiting unnecessary leave, and ensuring uninterrupted patient care.

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The circular issued by the medical superintendent of GMCH Jammu on April 25 mentioned, "The Store Officer and Store Keepers, GMCH are requested to keep all essential supplies, emergency medicines, and critical equipment in a state of readiness for immediate use to meet any exigency. All hospital staff are advised to restrict unnecessary holidays and are directed to ensure their presence within the hospital premises during duty hours to maintain uninterrupted and effective patient care. A 24×7 Control Room has been established to coordinate all emergency responses. The control room will function round the clock and may be contacted for any urgent requirement/issues."

However, yesterday, the Principal and Dean of GMC Jammu, Dr. Ashutosh Gupta, issued another directive formally withdrawing the April 25 circular without explaining the decision. 

"The circular issued by Medical Superintendent GMCH Jammu vide endorsement number GMCH/2025/812 dated 25.4.2025 is withdrawn ab-initio with immediate effect," reads the latest circular. 

Medical Dialogues had recently reported that a brutal act of terrorism in Pahalgam, which left the nation in mourning and rage, tore a family's world apart. A Bengaluru-based paediatrician's husband, a father, a simple man on a family vacation, was mercilessly shot even after he begged for his life. Not for himself, but for his three-year-old son.

But his cries were unheard, and he was lying on the ground, bleeding with bullet holes in his head and body after being shot for three minutes non-stop. In an instant, a child was orphaned, a wife was shattered, and a peaceful holiday turned into a lifelong nightmare.

The deceased man was Bharath Bhushan, a 41-year-old former software professional from Bengaluru, who was mercilessly shot dead by terrorists in Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir, on Tuesday in front of his wife, Dr Sujatha, a paediatrician at M.S. Ramaiah Medical College and Hospital and their three-year-old son.

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