Lt Governor Sinha visits SMHS Hospital, takes stock of COVID, Non-COVID facilities


By Imran Wani

Directs for maintaining proper care, hygiene; adherence to all SOP’s


Isolated and segregated facilities for Non-COVID patients


Make temporary arrangements for staff strengthening


Ensure safety of the doctors and paramedics who are directly dealing with COVID positive patients


Commends the role of COVID Warriors

 

SRINAGAR, AUGUST 08: (GNS)To get first hand appraisal of the facilities available for the COVID and Non-COVID patients, the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha today paid a visit to the SMHS Hospital.


He was accompanied by Sh. Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Advisor to Lieutenant Governor; Sh. BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Sh. Atal Dulloo, Financial Commissioner Health and Medical Education; Sh. Pandurang K. Pole, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir; Sh. Vijay Kumar, IGP Kashmir; Dr Samia Rashid, Principal, Government Medical College, Srinagar and other senior officers.

  

The Lt Governor took round of various sections of the hospital including Emergency, Indoor wards and other sections wherein he interacted with doctors and paramedical staff of the hospital and took stock of the interventions made by the hospital administration while dealing with the ongoing pandemic COVID-19 as well the Non-COVID patient care.


He enquired about the healthcare facilities and available infrastructure including necessary life-saving equipments like availability of isolation beds, ventilators, oxygen supply and other machinery required for treatment.


  The Lt Governor directed the Health functionaries for maintaining proper care and hygiene, besides following all the SOP’s while dealing with the patients.

 

He observed that the Non-COVID patients also require necessary attention, besides isolated and segregated facilities should also be maintained along with adherence to the precautionary protocol during their treatment.


On being informed about the shortage of Nursing Orderlies for the patient care, he advised for making temporary arrangements for the NOs for six months, meanwhile refer the said posts for filling up the vacancies. He was informed that 200 nurses are also being hired to meet the shortage of staff.


 The Lt Governor asked the Hospital Administration to allow the attendants of the patients only as per the SOP’s. He also enquired about the well-being of the staff looking after the COVID ward and interacted with the patients and their attendants.


Taking note of the possibility of shortage of Oxygen supply in future, he directed for making the necessary provisions for ensuring the uninterrupted oxygen supply well in advance.


Lauding the valuable work being done by the COVID Warriors, the Lt Governor stressed on taking all requisite measures to ensure the safety of doctors and paramedics who are directly dealing with COVID positive patients.


He called for bringing more improvement in the functioning of the hospitals for ensuring best healthcare facilities to the patients to make health care system of J&K best in the country.(GNS)


GENERAL ENGLISH

Maximum Marks: 100
Time : 3 Hours

The paper shall be divided into four (04) sections covering prose and poetry from Chinar - ii apart
from writing skills and grammar.

( SECTION A )

 Literature---------- 40 marks

A. One long answer type question (100-150 words) from prose based on character study / description of 
scene / title / theme / style to be attempted out of two. (1 x 7 = 7 marks )

B. Three short answer type questions (60- 80 words) from prose based on theme / interpretation to be
attempted out of six. (3 x 4 = 12 marks )

C. One long answer type question (80- 100 words) from poetry based on theme /style /critical
appreciation/ sum and substance to be attempted out of two. (1 x 5 = 5 marks )

D. Three short answer type questions from poetry based on theme / interpretation / poetic device
(metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, imagery, irony, paradox) to be attempted out of five.
 (2 x 3 = 6 marks )

E. One reference to context type question based on a prose passage to be attempted out of two passages. 
 (1 x 5 = 5 marks )

F. One reference to context type question based on poems to be attempted out of two.
 ( 1 x 5 = 5 marks )


( SECTION B )

Reading Comprehensive 15 Marks
A. One out of two poetic passages from the textbook followed by five comprehension questions with at
least one MCQ , one vocabulary based question . ( 1 x 5 = 5 marks )

B. One out of two unseen prose passages (300- 350 words each) followed by comprehension questions
with at least one MCQ , one vocabulary based question . ( 2 x 5 = 10 marks )

( SECTION C )

Writing Skills  20 Marks
To test the writing skills, four tasks (80-100 words) out of the six chosen from the following topics
to be attempted.
1. Paragraph writing (narrative / descriptive)
2. Report / article writing
3. Letter writing (official / business / personal)
4. Formal / official e-mail
5. Diary entry
6. Dialogue writing
7. Designing a poster
8. Writing a resume / CV 

( SECTION D )

 Grammar 25 Marks

A. Model (to be tested in a contextualized passage) 02 Marks

B. Tenses (to be tested in contextualized passage) 04 Marks

C. Articles, prepositions, conjuctions, (to be tested in one contextualized passage) with 03, 02 & 02
 marks respectively
D. Relative clauses 02 Marks
E. Conditional clauses 02 Marks
F. Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences 03 Marks
G. Voice 02 Marks
H. Narration 03 Marks
1. Section A Literature 40 marks
2 Section B Reading Comperehensive 15 Marks
3. Section C Writing Skills 20 Marks
4. Section D Grammer 25 Marks
Total 100 Marks

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