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JK hospitals: Juniors preferred over seniors
3/15/2018 12:23:39 AM
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 14: The Jammu and Kashmir government seems to have forgotten the already crises ridden health sector of the state with adhoc arrangements in the hospitals across the state ruling the roost.
As per the official inputs received by Early Times, the government seems to have been doing a little to manage the administration of scores of the hospitals spread across the far-flung hamlets of the state and in towns and cities. There are majority of the hospitals functioning at present without the administrators, sending the entire system into tizzy and taking toll on the quality health services in Jammu and Kashmir.
Reports informed that the government keeps giving charge to medical officers as In-charge(I/C) Block Medical officer's(BMO's), I/C Chief Medical Officer's(CMO's) or I/C Medical Superintendent's(MS's). "Through such a measure, the government is making these hospitals less capable to take the important decisions vis-a-vis the quality healthcare and ensuring that the patients don't suffer at large. The ground situation is such that the majority of the hospitals are run by the adhoc officials and therefore they cannot take any administrative decision. This has indeed led to a major chaos on ground," says a health department privy to the development.
There are even reports coming to fore that the people appointed as the hospital administrators are calling shots while undermining even the seniors. Insiders apprehend that the appointments have been made due to they being close to the corridors of the power while as the genuine seniority lists have been ignored by the people at the helm in the department of Health Services. There are also reports that these In-charge officers are appointed even without maintaining the seniority which is must in the entire process.
There are also reports that those who have been tasked to run the hospitals of the state at present are without any administrative experience where in a senior medical officer or consultant has to work under the so called In-charge BMO/CMO/MS which in turn kills the hierarchy of the setup and leads to administrative ineffectiveness and failures.
The insiders reveal that it has been seen that administrators are serving with "In charge" tag for years together without getting confirmed and this way they are always at the receiving end and if sometimes they fail to fulfil the obligation of higher up's they are demoted, this is in the interest of administrators also if they get confirmed.
"There are deep crises in several hospitals across the state wherein no seniority norms have been followed while as the rules formulated by the government have been thrown to the wind. Due to such an anarchy which prevails in the health sector, the hospitals are suffering badly. The Incharge trend has been taking toll since long and the government too seems to be unmoved by such a ruthless flaying of rules," says an official, adding that the chief minister herself has been informed about such a practise with appeals made to her to put an end to these violations.
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