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| Health care suffers in Poonch due to doctors' transfers | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 5: Health care facilities have been badly hit in Poonch district due to the mass transfers of doctors by health department. Even the patients suffering from minor ailments either prefer to go to the Rajouri district hospital or come to the government medical college and hospital (GMCH) here. Others prefer to consult senior doctors in their private clinics.
Sources in health department said that after the recent transfers of doctors, the health care delivery system had shown a downward trend in Poonch district. Some of the transferred doctors had earned a name in the district. People had so much of faith in them that even during serious ailments, they preferred to consult them and did not take their patients to big hospitals in the state or elsewhere in the country, the sources added.
It is pertinent to mention here that after the transfer of Dr Shehnaz Bhatti, a B-Grade Gynaecologist, from Poonch district hospital in the recent past, people had protested, urging the health department to cancel her transfer and keep her in the district hospital for some more time. While the department did not concede their demand, people started shifting their pregnant women to GMCH, Jammu.
Sources said in Poonch district hospital, the number of patients in OPD of gynaecology department had now come down from 2,000-2,500 patients per month to a negligible level. The number of deliveries, which were earlier recorded at 450-480 per month, had also come down as people were bringing their patients to GMCH here, the sources added. Sources said the health department should not transfer good doctors from the state's far-flung hospitals to other areas. "The people of these otherwise ignored areas are also part and parcel of the state and deserve better medicare facilities. This is only possible if good doctors, who have a proved track record, are not transferred from there," the sources added.
After the mass transfers of doctors by the health department, there was also a hue and cry in Rajouri district which now is faced with the acute shortage of consultants, B-Grade doctors and assistant surgeons. Assailing the health department, Aiyaz of Poonch said the transfers of doctors had badly affected the functioning of hospitals in Poonch district. Pravez, Sudershan Singh and Tarsem Lal criticised the health department for ignoring the plight of people while effecting the transfers of doctors from government hospitals. |
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