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| Jammu SSH gets 21 lecturer posts, Srinagar SSH 50 | | Discrimination in health sector too | | Bijay Charak
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 30: The state government has sanctioned 50 posts of lecturers to Super Specialty Hospital (SSH) Srinagar while the Jammu SSH has got only 21 posts, in yet another instance of brazen discrimination against Jammuities.
Sources in the Health and Medical Education department told Early Times that as per original plan the sanctioned strength of manpower was equal for both hospitals.
"The then GMC Jammu administration had submitted proposal of manpower for SSH Jammu to government as per original plan, but it was altered by GMC Srinagar administration, causing huge variation of sanctioned posts between both hospitals," said the sources.
Some of the Jammu-based legislators had raised the issue of discrimination in health care sector against Jammu region in Legislative Assembly. Their protests were however ignored by the then government, the sources said.
They said that an equal number of posts of Professors and Associate Professors have been sanctioned for both hospitals, but there is a huge variation in the number of Assistant Professors and Lecturers posts.
For SSH Srinagar, 26 posts of Assistant Professors and 50 posts of Lecturers were sanctioned, but for SSH Jammu only 16 posts of Assistant Professors and 21 posts of Lecturers were sanctioned.
Such discrepancies in the number of sanctioned posts for both SSHs have punctured the claims of successive governments that they are committed to equitable development of all regions of the state.
"Not only in the number of sanctioned posts but even in allocation of funds successive regimes have discriminated against Jammu region," said the sources.
SSH Jammu and SSH Srinagar have a 220 bed capacity each, with each having six vital departments namely, Cardiology, CTVS, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Nephrology and Urology. "If both the hospitals have similar infrastructure, then why do successive governments discriminate against SSH Jammu," asked the sources.
SSH Jammu caters to the patients from all 10 districts of Jammu province. Patients often complain that doctors in the SSH Jammu are unable to their proper care because of huge patient rush, hence the vacant posts need to be filled without further delay. |
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