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| Govt hospital at Bemina opts for Kar-e-Najar, Badaste Gilkar! | | Doctors seek LG’s intervention | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 22: The government run hospital on Bemina highway has yet again come under scanner, this time for a decision whereby specialist doctors from one department have been directed to treat patients from the medicine side.
Resentment is brewing among the specialists and other senior doctors at the Bemina facility as the hospital administration has issued directives making it mandatory for doctors from one specialization to treat patients who need specialization from other units.
Official documents as accessed by the Early Times show that surgeons were put on duty to treat patients from the medicine side.
“You cannot make a surgeon do job of a specialist from medicine. This is ridiculous on the part of the administration,” said a delegation of doctors on the condition of anonymity.
The specialists told Early Times that were not against treating Covid-19 patients. “We are already treating Covid-19 patients in our respective units but this order has messed up things. This new duty roaster even violates the guidelines for quarantine of doctors as this way there is no such mandatory breather for us. Let the government verify it from us,” said a delegation of doctors.
The order issued on August 4 has made a duty roaster for doctors whereby doctors who specialize in one field have been put on duty in the High Dependency Unit for the Covid patients.
Medical experts said the arrangement has put the life of patients at risk in particular. “The patients in the High Dependency Unit need specialized treatment as such are the cases who are next to those in the ICU. How can a surgeon do job of a physician or the vice versa,” the doctors said.
Sources said a top official at the hospital who is already under scanner for corruption and favoritism including allegedly fraudulent appointment of his spouse, got the roaster made to give a rosy picture of the working at the hospital.
“Basically he wanted to show the government that there was no dearth of doctors and that he had introduced a smart system of treating patients,” said sources said.
The plan, however, as per the insiders has failed.
Sources said the Raj Bhawan has got inputs about the complaints of corruption and favoritism and that the new order of making surgeons do physicians job has aggravated things.
When contacted a senior official at the hospital said the order was issued in the interest of administration.
“These are times of emergency and such decisions can be taken in the larger interest of the |
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