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Under garb of unrest; SKIMS doctors busy doing Pvt practice 10/3/2016 11:20:53 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Oct 3: As Kashmir valley continues to be under the state of unrest, people have been indulging in all kinds of illegal acts like timber smuggling, encroachment of Government land, illegal construction around Dal lake, felling of chinar and walnut trees etc from last 90 days. Now reports of illegal private practice by doctors of Sher e Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) are pouring in from various areas of Srinagar. Reports said that in-spite of getting Non Practicing Allowance (NPA) many senior medicos are involved in this illegal trade thus taking undue advantage of the present unrest. Reliable sources said that the doctors are making money by calling the patients to their residential houses in several posh areas of Srinagar in the wee hours. Pertinent to mention that The Sher e Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Srinagar is yet to make list of those doctors public who were caught by authorities doing private practice. By not making this information public SKIMS has violated the orders of State Information Commission (SIC) which had directed PIO of SKIMS to make the said information public in its order issued last year in September. The State Information Commission (SIC) had directed the SKIMS Srinagar to reveal details about action taken by the authorities against a senior doctor who was involved in private practice which is completely banned for the doctors employed at SKIMS. The said information was earlier denied under RTI Act to an information seeker who also happens to be a senior doctor in the same institute. Early Times had already carried a detailed report on this issue last year . Pertinent to mention that Information seeker Dr Ghulam Nabi Yatoo had sought the details under J&K RTI Act 2009 from SKIMS officials (PIO) about the outcome of the letter forwarded to the Competent Authority by the SKIMS administration recommending therein the immediate suspension of a senior doctor who according to the attendance statement signed by the HOD was caught indulging in private practice by the Government agencies. Dr Yatoo had sought copies of the retrospective service benefits as Professor Gastroenterology given to the said doctor after doing this criminal act of private practice. The Information was denied by the SKIMS Public Information Officer (PIO) by invoking the some provisions of RTI wherein the PIO termed this information as personal information / 3rd party information, the SIC had however refuted the explanation of SKIMS in withholding the information.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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