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| Docs don't give damn to Govt directive, teachers face tyranny | | Ban on private practice | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 23: Just a few days after Department of School Education imposed ban on private tuitions by Government teachers in November last, squads comprising officers of School Education Department and even police cracked down on tutorials located in the narrow by lanes of the city; but strangely, consecutive Governments have failed to ban private practice by Government doctors despite several announcements.
The fact has not only exposed complete policy paralysis within the Government, but also its complete helplessness before the strong lobby of doctors that has defied repeated bans announced by it on their private practice.
The doctors had filed a SLP in the Supreme Court when the previous coalition Government last announced ban on the private practice. Then Minister for Medical Education was threatened by a strong lobby of senior doctors of mass resignations after he announced the ban. The Minister in order to save blushes for himself announced evening clinics in Sir Colonel Chopra Nursing Home within the GMC hospital and offered to share the fixed consultation fee with them, but pompous doctors took the bull by the horn and openly came in defiance after filing the SLP. Since then, even the doctors who get Non Practicing Allowance (NPA) from the Government including HoDs of various academic departments of the GMC are doing private practice.
There is a strong resentiment that the patient care as well as research and academic work which should be the hall mark of any medical institution has taken a serious dent in J&K as faculty doctors are working overtime in private clinics and nursing homes when they should be training young doctors.
The incumbent Minister for Health and Medical Education has also been empty recurring over the issue, but close to a year after he took over, he has done little except making announcements. "Government was making all efforts to challenge the SLP filed in the Supreme Court with regard to the private practice of J&K doctors by previous Omar Abdullah led NC-Congress Government" the Health Ministers said in a function recently. "For better services in the Government run hospitals, every doctor needs to be present and serve people in better way, irrespective of seniority," he added. Minister also reinstated that the Government would formulate a proposal in which the NPA demands of the doctors would be addressed. "Government has decided that the private practice should be banned at all levels and we will implement in principal" the Minister said.
While doctors have exhibited open defiance against Government on the issue, poor teachers, who are paid much less than the medicos and their private tuitions do not have much bearing on overall Education perspective are being targeted by crackdowns on tutorials. |
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