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| Patients suffer as doctors continue to be "unpunctual" | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 2: Because of the doctors of government hospitals, who were alleged to be unpunctual, patients across Kashmir continue to suffer.
"Despite heavy flow of patients in OPDs, the doctors arrive and leave at their own will, forcing patients, no matter how serious they are, to wait for hours and even days," a senior official of the Health Department, wishing anonymity, told Early Times.
He said long queues of patients were a common feature at OPDs in most of the hospitals. "The OPDs are supposed to open at 10 am but not a single doctor turns up for duty on time," he said.
An employee of the SMHS hospital said that patients, who cannot afford to go to private hospitals, come to the government hospital for treatment, but they are receiving little help as the doctors are hardly around in this hospital. "Lack of inspection from the concerned authorities has given leeway to the doctors to show up for duty whenever they deem necessary. Most of these doctors either run private clinics or work in private hospitals," he alleged and said the hospital management is least bothered about the serious lack of punctuality among the doctors.
Meanwhile, when this reporter visited some of the hospitals to see the ground situation, he found that most of the doctors including seniors are coming hospitals at their own will and also found that most of the hospitals are over-crowded and unattended.
Patients also alleged that non-availability of medicines add to their miseries and accused that the doctors prescribe only those medicines which are available with the chemists who are associated with these doctors. "Many doctors have also developed links with the owners of private nursing homes where they practice after hospital duty. Allegedly, these doctors also put pressure on the visiting patients to get their treatment done at private nursing homes, where they usually practice," said one of the patients at Rainawari Hospital. He said that due to the acute medicine shortage in the civil hospitals, the patients are told to buy them from the market. "The bulk of the medicines supplied to the hospital stores are sold in the market," he alleged and complained about the absence of Paramedical staff during the duty hours. Citing political patronage as the main reason to this mess sources said that many doctors in the government hospitals and other health institutions had developed proximity with ministers and other influential politicians. |
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