{"id":12563,"date":"2026-02-18T19:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=12563"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:26:21","slug":"219-ventilators-non-functional-in-jk-hospitals-govt-tells-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/219-ventilators-non-functional-in-jk-hospitals-govt-tells-house\/","title":{"rendered":"219 ventilators non-functional in J&#038;K hospitals: Govt tells House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Feb 18: The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Wednesday informed the House that out of 877 ventilators installed across hospitals in the Union Territory, 219 remain non-functional, highlighting gaps in critical care infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to a question of MLA Shamim Firdous, Health and Medical Education Department Minister Sakina Itoo, as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that 658 ventilators are functional while 219 are non-functional.<\/p>\n<p>While giving institution-wise details, she said that in GMC Jammu and its associated hospital there are 320 ventilators, among which 209 are functional and 111 are non-functional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn SMHS Srinagar, 08 ventilators are non-functional and in GMC Srinagar associated hospitals excluding SMHS, 44 are non-functional,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>They said, in GMC Anantnag, just 10 out of 36 ventilators are functional. GMC Baramulla has 2 non-functional ventilators, GMC Doda 10, GMC Kathua 2 and GMC Rajouri 3 are non-functional,\u201d they said adding in GMC Udhampur and GMC Handwara, all 39 and 6 ventilators respectively are functional.<\/p>\n<p>The government further said, in SKIMS and its associated hospitals, out of 53 ventilators, 40 are functioning while 13 are non-functional. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Feb 18: The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Wednesday informed the House that out of 877 ventilators installed across hospitals in the Union Territory, 219 remain non-functional, highlighting gaps in critical care infrastructure. Replying to a question of MLA Shamim Firdous, Health and Medical Education Department Minister Sakina Itoo, as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12565,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions\/12565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}