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| NSF for revitalization of health infrastructure in State | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 14: The National Secular Forum (NSF) has lambasted the Health as well as Medical Education departments for their failure to address the issues of common masses and demanded immediate steps to revitalize the health infrastructure.
Addressing a press conference, NSF president Sukhdev Singh said due to the casual attitude of Health as well as Medical Education ministers the poor people were suffering on the account of health problems.
"The start of Evening Shift for private practice of Government Medical College (GMC) doctors is a live example of Government's apathetic attitude," he said.-
He added that the decision of the authorities to start evening OPDs was a sheer exploitation of common masses who will now have to pay more without getting any additional facility in return. Sukhdev Singh stated that it would rather give an advantage to the doctors practicing in evening clinics. "On one hand, the State Government is announcing that it would ban private practices of doctors and on the other hand, it authorizes them to run them during evening. It is very difficult for a common man to bear the expenses in these clinics because of their weak economic condition", Sukhdev Singh said. Sukhdev further said the inspite of having all the necessary facilities available at Chopra Nursing Home, the government was not taking any initiative to make it functional there by |
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