| Ailing KP employee of SKIMS succumbs to administrative apathy | | Denied regularization even after 15 years, Sunil dies as 'casual' | | Avinash Azad
Jammu, Apr 10: Criminally cold indifference of state and centre governments toward the Kashmiri Pandits who preferred to stay on in the valley during migration triggered by militancy can be gauged from recent incident, in which a Kashmiri Pandit employee who served Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) for more than 15 years as casual employee died few days back, desperately seeking regularization of his services all these years.
Sunil Kaul, a casual employee at SKIMS, Soura was suffering from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) Cancer, died on April 6.
He was admitted in the hospital on March 12 2014, but owing to biased approach of hospital administration, Sunil was not availed proper treatment. "Despite, being an employee at SKIMS, Soura he was denied better healthcare. When he was admitted in the hospital following uneasiness.", said Sunil's colleague at SKIMS.
He further said that since, he was a casual employee of hospital for last fifteen years and unable to bear expenses of treatment, the management should have provided him free of cost treatment. "Everyone was aware that he was suffering from deadly disease and treatment was too expensive for him to afford. Director SKIMS, Dr Shouqat Zargar never bothered to visit the ailing employee", he regretted, adding that for routine tests and medicines the family was paying huge money on daily basis. The employee informed that the Paramedical Staff of SKIMS has sympathy with family of deceased. "Non- Gazzetted Employees Welfare Association, SKIMS is planning to collect some money for the family, as state Government and hospital administration failed to compensate the family", said an employee, adding that but it was duty of Director and management of the hospital to compensate the kins of deceased.
Lambasting state and Centre government over its fabricated sympathy with Kashmiri Pandits, he said that government has failed to overcome miseries of common masses.
He further said that Centre and State governments have forgotten welfare of very few KPs stayed on in valley.
They further alleged that deceased's salary for five months had not been released by administration. "Being a casual employee, Sunil faced pressing financial crunch, yet administration failed to release his pending salary", he added. |
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