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| Despite termination of 100 doctors, indiscipline galore in Health deptt | | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
jammu, Mar 6: Termination of services of 100 doctors who remained absent from their duties without any authorization for a longer period by the government has not made a strong impact as most of these doctors had already migrated to the greener pastures outside the state and the country without tendering their resignations.
While a senior officer in the Health and Medical Education said that the termination of these doctors would help government in enforcing discipline in the department and help the administration to recruit new doctors at the vacant positions, the fact of the matter is that the government has failed to make these doctors abide by its directions and ensure better delivery of their services for the masses.
It is astounding that despite getting thousands of rupees as non practicing allowance (NPA), many doctors heading the academic departments in the Government Medical College both in Jammu and Srinagar are defiantly pursuing private practice and government has failed to take any action against them. The 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 open defiance of the doctors can be gauged from the fact they 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.
Notably, when most government officers have become more responsible in their conduct during the Governor's rule, the strong lobby of defiant doctors has continued to pursue private practice against the clear guidelines of the government against it. "It is imperative that a strong action is taken against such erring doctors by the government of the day because once the popular government is instituted, these affluent doctors would again manage to go scot free" said a doctor who retired from GMC. |
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