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| Health Minister bans media from entering Govt hospitals; Medicos gagged | | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 6: The Health Minister has banned entry of media into Government Hospitals and the medicos across the State have been barred from speaking to media.
The order apparently aimed to put under veil the shambled health sector of the State, has sent shock waves across. It is first of its kind in the history of Jammu and Kashmir that the Government has gagged media from covering truth in the State hospitals.
Not only has the Health Minister reminded the Jammu and Kashmir State the turbulent times of emergency but has also mocked at the claims of the his own regime which keeps beating the trumpet of restoring 'transparency and accountability' in the State.
That gag order issued by the Health Department has warned the doctors in the Government Hospitals of not to divulge any details of their work before the media and also not to restraint from divulging the details of the status of the health sector.
The order comes in the backdrop of the series of the media reports which exposed the worsening scenario of the State Hospitals and how patients are taken for a ride in these health institutions. Finding himself caught in the middle of crises, the Health Minister, as per sources, asked Director Health to issue an order so that the medicos at large could be barred from speaking to any journo.
"It has out rightly undermined the significance of press- democracy's fourth pillar and people's right to know how much betterment has been ensured in State's health sector," says one of the medicos working in a Government run hospital.
There are also reports that in the past, scores of stories about partiality, favouritism, nepotism and corruption in the Health Department and hospitals have been reported in the media and in most of these cases the sources have been doctors and other administrative staff. The gag order is apparently aimed at silencing those voices. "It is apparent that something is wrong within the health department otherwise such illogical circular would have been never issued- I mean it carries no sense that a medico cannot speak to any journalist. It makes us believe that we in Jammu and Kashmir continue to live still in primitive times," said Umer Asif, a journalist.
What seems to be more ironic is that none in the present regime has even muttered a word about the order. |
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