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| Beyond political din over new Medical colleges | | Existing hospitals cry for requisite staff, better facilities | | ET Report
JAMMU, Feb 18: The announcement of four medical colleges in the State by Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has generated a controversy with almost all MLAs demanding medical colleges in their respective districts without considering whether the existing medical colleges and so called super specialty hospitals have the requisite infrastructure including manpower. According to highly placed sources.
The State is at present facing dearth of doctors both in existing medical colleges and other hospitals and about 2000 posts of doctors are lying vacant in various colleges. Even the two medical colleges of Srinagar and Jammu do not have proper staff with the result doctor patient ratio is increasing day by day, sources added. Sources said the dearth of doctors in medical colleges, associated hospitals and district and sub district hospitals as well as health centres in rural areas has not been a cause of concern among the masses but it has also exposed the claims of the Government in bettering the medicare facilities in the State.
The deserving doctors have been deprived of promotions in the medical colleges due to highhandedness of bureaucrats and minister bureaucratic wrangles, sources added. Sources said the condition is deteriorating in the State to such an extent that often there is a clash between attendants of patients and doctors over the death of a patient admitted for treatment in the hospital. This practice is much common in GMC Srinagar where a number of times irate relatives of patients have manhandled with doctors on duty. The irate relatives often accuse doctors of negligence in such cases and the doctors on the other hand are overburdened with the work due to lack of staff.
The situation has deteriorated in the medical colleges of the State that a PG has to undergo 30 to 32 hours continuous duty at the risk and cost of his life. Sources as well as experts in medical field said that it is never possible for a doctor to remain on continuous duty for 32 hours and this way neither he can do justice to his or her patients nor his or her own health.
When such is the condition of medical colleges in the State how can Government meet the expenses of newly created medical colleges as announced by Azad in the State.
But the politicians at the helm of affairs for cheap publicity and vote bank politics are not bothered for the same and they make announcements and befool the people, said experts in the field of medicine. They said instead of setting up of new medical colleges the Government should take steps in providing infrastructure to existing medical colleges of the State and fill up the vacant posts of doctors and para medical staff. Setting up of a medical college is not like a primary school or a dispensary but it needs recognition of Medical Council of India (MCI) for which it has to fulfill some norms and criteria.
The State lacked facilities in the medical college that MD pediatrics from JMC Jammu was not recognized by MCI for a long time and same problem was faced by Dental College Jammu in getting recognition by DCI.
This fact must be borne in mind by the politicians while demanding medical colleges in each and every district. |
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