Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 27: The National Secular Forum (NSF) protested against the Health as well as Medical Education ministers for their failure in suitable action against private Nursing Homes is operating in the region without registration and hike fee Rs 300 to evening OPD in GMC. Addressing the gathering, President NSF Sukhdev Singh demanded from the Chief-Minister to order vigilance probe into the "Irregularities, bad services, corruption, nepotism, other bungling in health sector and rollback the decision of hike fee Rs 300 to evening OPD in GMC. NSF president 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 that will now have to pay more without getting any additional facility in return. He also said, "The private Nursing Homes are operating in the region without registration. They don't have the requisite infrastructure." Singh said nursing homes were without the prescribed facilities but still operating under the nose of authorities without infrastructure. Also they were charging heavily from the poor patients. Singh warned if Government fails to check their menace and rollback the decision of hike fee Rs 300 to evening OPD in GMC and the NSF will launch crusade across the region. Barket Ali, Qayoom Malik, Azaj Shah, Vikram Madhyal, Narinder Singh, PP Singh, Rishikesh Rana, Pushpinder Singh, Vicky Thakur and Ankit Sharma also spoke on this occasion. |
