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| After 13 yrs of service in far flung areas, ISM doctors transferred back to remote areas | | Medicos stage protests against discrimination | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 2: After having served in far flung areas of Jammu and Kashmir for 13 long years, the Indian System of Medicine (ISM) doctors have again been transferred to remote villages.
The transfer orders have triggered massive resentment from the ISM doctors who today yet again staged protests at the Press Enclave here. The Director General of ISM, Dr Abdul Kabir and the State Health Minister are being accused of favoritism in the transfer policy, by virtue of which "influential doctors continue to enjoy favorable postings whereas other ISM doctors were being victimized."
Sources said there was a "scam" in the transfer policy of the doctors in the Health department, adding that the concerned ministry has "wickedly done it to hide the inefficiencies and to project a rosy picture before the central government."
Sources said the Central government had asked the state to make all doctors work in the remote areas from time to time. "But to prevent the transfer of influential doctors to remote areas, the non-influential lot has been made the scapegoat," the insiders said.
Official documents vide number DG ISM 5216-28 dated November 20, 2015 reveal that the DG ISM has transferred as many as 35 doctors again to far flung areas though they have already served in the area for over a decade and were just complete their maiden two year posting in the home province.
"Since our appointment into government services 2001, we the ISM doctors who were posted in far flung and remote areas of Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh and Gurez and were transferred to home province after a lot of stern and vehement effort in 2013," the doctors said.
They said if the transfers were to be made, those doctors who have not worked in far off areas should have been posted to such areas. "Why we are being transferred when we have continuously served for thirteen long years, which is a considerable period of our service tenure, in these areas," the doctors have written in a representation to Health Minister.
They said they were being victimized as they don't enjoy any influence in the corridors of power. "Earlier also in violation of service rules, we were made to work in remote areas at a stretch and now we are being again treated in the same way," the doctors said.
They said the transfer orders have been designed so "cleverly that there's no scope of any appeal." The orders issued vide number DG ISM 5216-28 dated November 20, 2015 states that the "above doctors shall be deemed to be relieved from their place of posting with immediate effect."
When contacted a senior official said the transfers have been "done in the interest of the administration." He, however, declined to comment on as to why only the medicos who have already worked in far off regions have been transferred back.
Meanwhile the medicos have appealed Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and the Union Health Minister to personally look into the matter. |
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