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| Which authority will punish health minister for "wrong doing"? | | He would reprimand one female doctor for not wearing apron, fix collar of another but will himself violate all norms | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 6: Like water, discipline also percolates from the higher to the lower level but who will tell health minister that he first needs to mend his ways before reprimanding others for almost similar mistakes.
Being a health minister, he has the authority to punish any medical department employee even over a trivial issue but who is going to take him to task for serious issues?
A self-proclaimed propagator of discipline in hospitals and other health institutions in the state, he was caught in a controversy nearly two months or so back for reprimanding a lady doctor in a city hospital for not wearing an apron. The lady doctor had reacted sharply, describing the minister's behaviour as "unjust" and "illogical".
A few days back, he was found fixing the collar of a lady doctor in a Kathua hospital. His photograph in this regard had gone viral on social networking sites.
But the way in which he yesterday made an "indisciplined" entry into GB Pant Children's Hospital without wearing the mandatory medical head gear, mask and apron, he proved that he gives a damn care to the rules and norms.
Had any doctor committed such a blunder, the minister would have surely taken him to task. But there is none above him in the medical department. Under such a situation, will the BJP high command or for that matter, chief minister Mufti Mohammad Syed seek explanation from him?
He has also been in the news for the past one month for stressing on dress code for doctors on duty to ensure "discipline" and " prevention of infection." However, on Saturday, he visited Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ( NICU) at GB Pant hospital without wearing an apron or a mask- two mandatory anti- infection measures. The Minister also didn't remove his shoes before entering the NICU, according to official sources.
Sources said NICU only admits critically sick newborns and anyone who enters their wards must take the anti-infection measures.
" The infection control mechanism is maintained by ensuring that doctors and nurses wear proper anti- infection gear including apron and mask during their stay at the NICU," the sources added.
"There are strict restrictions on visitors and attendants to visit this ward but the minister walked into it as if it was a general ward," sources said and added that even mothers "are allowed to feed their newborns after wearing aprons".
It was shocking to see the minister entering NICU without wearing the infection control gear, sources said.
This was Lal Singh's first visit to the GB Pant Children's Hospital where infrastructure deficiency has badly hit the healthcare delivery.
Earlier, the minister, on his first visit to SMHS Hospital, allegedly ' pushed' some doctors for not donning their aprons. |
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