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| Rural areas of Kashmir face dearth of doctors | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 6: The Kashmir Valley is facing an acute dearth of doctors in the rural belt, causing a public outcry.
According to sources, about 50 percent staff is vacant in hospitals of rural belt with patients put to lot of hardships as they do not get proper medicare facilities in the hospitals.
Sources said the dispensaries and hospitals in rural belt of the Valley were kept open round the clock due to public pressure. But the authorities changed the decision after some months as no doctor was available to perform emergency duty during the night.
Sources said the doctors appointed under NHRM who do not directly come under Directorate of Health are unwilling to perform night duty.
In various hospitals the Directorate of NHRM has shifted its staff and is also causing problems for the Health Services Department.
Sources said not to speak of WHO norms in some areas, the ratio of doctor-patient is1000:1 due to which the doctors fail do justice to their job.
Sources said despite the repeated pleas of doctors associations to bridge the widening patient-doctor gap, the authorities are unmoved.
Sources said it is not the problem only in rural belt of Valley but in the hospitals of urban areas of Valley also where due to lack of medicare and required number of doctors, patients and their attendants target doctors and hospital staff who become victims of their wrath.
This has in past led to strikes by doctors and paramedical staff, sources said, adding that in case adequate staff could have been available in rural areas the rush of patients from rural belt to urban areas would decrease to a great extent.
The shortage of doctors has taken such an alarming shape in Valley that recently at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura, a patient had gone for general check up in gastroenterology department on March 20 and for simple checking he was given the date of July 5. When such is the condition that for a normal check up a patient has to wait for four months, what will happen the patients who need immediate surgeries and other treatment is a question which the people are asking.
Meanwhile, the newly formed Revolutionary Party led by Mir Ghulam Rasool while calling it a defunct system has warned to launch a movement against the same. |
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