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| Transfers in Health Deptt guided by nepotism, favoritism | | | ASHWANI
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 8: All is not well in Department of Health and Family Welfare as favoritism and nepotism continues to rule roost there and despite the tall claims the claims of Health Minister, Sham Lal Sharma to put the Department back on rails nothing has improved on ground.
According to sources the main drawback in the functioning of the Department is that it has failed to frame a transfer policy especially for doctors. The pick and choose methods adopted by the Government for posting of doctors has been a cause of concern for the medical professionals who accuse the higher ups in the Department of adopting a biased approach in this regard.
The sources said that the doctors and para medical staff both in allopathic and Indian System of Medicines (ISM) with no approach and influence in the highest corridors of power are transferred and posted to far flung areas of the state. Some of these doctors have not been even shifted from these remote and far flung areas even after completion of five years term, the sources added.
The sources said such an attitude of the higher ups has led to the desperation among most of the medical professionals especially the doctors with the result that some of them even defy the Government orders and don't attend their duties in far-flung areas.
The sources said the nepotism and favoritism rules so roost in the Health Department that the relatives of politicians and bureaucrats are not shifted from the peripheries capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar where as those having no political or bureaucratic clout are posted in remote places.
This is the case with both Allopathic as well as ISM and in both these Wings of Health Ministry no body dares to touch an influential doctor, the sources added.
These doctors are on record to have never served outside the peripheries of two capital cities during their service career, the sources said. Such a state of affairs has generated a resentment among masses also and this all happens under the noose of Health Minister , the sources added.
The sources said the main cause of growing favoritism and nepotism in the Department is that unlike the other Departments it has not bothered to frame a transfer policy nor are there any indications of framing the same in near future. Had the Department adopted a proper procedure of transfers the things would have been totally different and the people would have not been subjected to hardships in getting proper medicare facilities especially in rural and far flung areas, the sources opine.
The sources said recently a doctor in Health Services who had not yet completed even a one year of his tenure in a dispensary in outskirts of Jammu city was posted in Poonch district and when the said doctor approached the authorities for review of the decision he was warned of dire consequences.
Similarly in the recently made transfers of about 100 ISM doctors a son of a former Minister and a newly appointed doctor was posted in a local dispensary near his home while a senior doctors who had a stint of only one year at that place was posted to a far flung area, the sources added.
The sources said this is not the unique case but many such influential doctors were posted within the city or its outskirts by the authorities to please their political bosses.
The sources said in the transfer list of ISM doctors those who have served their entire life in rural belt and where now at the verge of retirement have again been posted in Poonch and other far flung areas.
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