Overview
- Suppliers reportedly stopped delivering stents, pacemakers, balloons and Cath Lab consumables over nearly Rs 30 crore in unpaid PM-JAY dues, halting GSSH’s Cath Lab where around 25 procedures are usually done daily.
- The Bench called the situation “highly sensitive” and ordered a public-interest petition titled “Court on its own motion vs. Nemo.”
- The Jammu and Kashmir Health Department launched an inquiry and directed the Drug Controller to close the medical shops of defaulting suppliers.
- The court record notes the matter arose during hearings on long-pending PILs over medical infrastructure and regulation that have remained unresolved for more than a decade despite multiple compliance reports.
- An official spokesperson for GMC Jammu said late Tuesday that alternative supplies were arranged from institutions including AIIMS Vijaypur, GMC Srinagar, SKIMS and PGIMER Chandigarh, with cardiac services restored forthwith.