| Hundreds of docs, paramedics not transferred for yrs | | | Mohammad Sarfaraz
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 2: Though the Governor administration has made reshuffles in various government departments, many people believe that many doctors across the Kashmir valley have not been transferred even as they have served the places for many years together.
According to sources, there are not only few doctors or paramedics, but hundreds of people in the Health Department were not transferred from past several years.
Transfer of an employee is very important to make the system corruption free, and free from personal interests. Hundreds of doctors, whether they are MBBS, BUMS, MDs or BDS, have remained posted for years together and have never been transferred, sources told Early Times.
Some have been posted for about seven or eight years, and they are running their private clinics. With the result, the general public suffers a lot in terms of proper care and consultations.
The doctors who are working in government run hospitals across the state should have been transferred to other places so that the new doctors could prove their mettle in health care, said sources.
Sources said many efficient doctors who had not completed more than a year or two were transferred by the previous government due to personal interests of the ministers or bureaucrats, and were posted in far flung areas of border districts and they biting the dust there as they don't get the facilities as other doctors have".
"From south to north Kashmir hospitals have been flooded by doctors, who were never transferred from past many years and the new faces either run out of the country to prove their mettle or they are compelled to stay at one place for few years", sources said.
There is limit of stay for two years, but many doctors, be it a rank of medical officer, medical superintendents or any administrative posts, and one can understand that there is a strong lobbyism of doctors who have political backing due to which they are not being transferred from the hospitals from past many years, which has allowed them to go for private practices in nearby of their residential quarters. |
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