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| Lab Technician doing private practice from PHC | | |  Early Times Report
Chadoora, Jan 7: At a time when Government is launching schemes like National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and Aishuman Bharat , poor and disadvantaged people in remote areas continue to suffer at the hands of employees posted in Government hospitals. The paramedical employees in particular are fleecing poor patients by indulging in private practice from the Government health institutions.
Details available with Early Times reveal that a lab technician namely Syed Aftab Shah who is posted at Primary Health Center (PHC) Surasyar block Chadoora of Budgam district is looting poor patients by charging them for the services provided in the PHC.
The lab technician collects blood samples for various investigations inside the hospital. The doctors are also collaborators in this unholy practice who ask patients to undergo unnecessary investigations. After collecting the sample lab technician sends the same to private labs while as hospital authorities particularly Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Budgam and Block Medical Officer (BMO) are mute spectators to all this illegal business.
On December 27th a patient namely Afroza W/O Mushtaq Ahmad Lone R/O Bonen , Batwodder Sursayar village went to PHC Surasyar where doctors advised her to undergo some investigations like TSH and Lipid Profiling. When the patient went into the hospital laboratory , the lab assistant Aftab asked her that investigations could not be undertaken in the hospital and asked Afroza to give Rs 600 so that these investigations would be done from a private lab.
" I discovered that the technician had over charged us. When asked, instead of feeling sorry raised hue and cry and threatened me with dire consequences. I sent a message to higher ups in Civil Secretariat Jammu, to which a senior officer in secretariat responded and BMO namely Dr Dilair Khan was directed by Health & Medical Education Department to initiate action against the lab technician, I am sure he would be taken to task " said Mushtaq Ahmad Lone husband of Afroza while talking to ET.
The illegal practice by doctors or paramedical staff in Govt hospitals is a punishable offense. "I appeal Advisor to Governor K Vijay Kumar , Chief Secretary BVR Subramanhyam and Commissioner Secretary Health Atal Duloo to take these black sheep to task " Mushtaq Ahmad said. |
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