• The hospital is deficient in staff. About 163 posts were created in 2005 from professor to orderlies. Some of the posts were advertised by the Public Service Commission and gazetted cadre of consultants was filled but the rest of the posts were filled on contractual basis only. Most of the contractual nursing staff left after they got permanent positions elsewhere. The hospital is short of some 30 nurses.

• The hospital is facing an acute shortage of space and beds. It is working in the same capacity for the last five years after being shifted to the cantonment area from its old place adjacent to the Lal Ded hospital.

• A full-fledged paediatric Intensive Care Unit is needed, the space has been ear marked but staff and equipment are required.

• With no full time administrator, the hospital staff, including the paramedics, has no accountability. It has also created lots of problems in terms of discipline, procurement of essential drugs in time, equipment and over all maintenance at all levels in the hospital.

• An MoU has been signed between the J-K government and the Cantonment board, leading to the dual control of the hospital’s administration with the Deputy Superintendent from the army. All the decisions regarding the hospital have to be taken with the permission from the army.

• The hospital faces shortage of fully automatic analyzers for performing various tests and lessening the dependence on manpower. There is a dearth of ABG machines for Intensive Care Units, Modern Binocular Microscopes, Photography Units, and Overhead Radiant Warmers.

• Radiology department lacks modern USG machines with different probes especially for neonatal cranial ultrasound, Colour Doppler and C T scan machine.

• The hospital needs an oxygen plant for continuous oxygen supply to the patients in the emergency and neonatal ward. An electrocardiogram machine (ECG) and the monitors in the neonatal ICU, are non functional from the last six months and need replacement or repairs at least.

• Diagnostic facilities inside the hospital are insufficient as poor patients have to avail them from the market or are referred to the SKIMS or SMHS. The liver function test (LFT) is done only two days in a week from 10 to 1pm at the hospital.

• With no modern cleaning tools like vacuum cleaners, washers etc, the hospital sweepers use brooms.