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| Credibility, dignity of clinical laboratory owners at stake | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 9: Credibility and dignity of hundreds of medical professionals discharging their services in the field of laboratory technology is at stake since the Jammu & Kashmir administration has issued an ‘authoritarian’ order thus causing heartburns among these medical professionals.
Early Times has learnt that the Health & Medical Education department has issued an order asking the owners of clinical establishments and laboratories to appoint a doctor at their respective laboratories. The owners of such clinical establishments have been directed not to give any test report unless and until the same is signed by the doctor posted at the establishment.
The ‘diktat’ of the administration has come in no less than a shock for the owners of clinical establishments since they have been discharging their services in a professional manner with no interference. The clinical laboratory owners say that doctors posted at the higher echelons in the field of medicine have acknowledged and appreciated their performance from time to time.
Talking to Early Times a group of clinical laboratory owners said that the medical tests and investigations are performed by analyzers and other machines. They said the results are given by such machines and there is no human interference in the whole process adding that doctors have no role as well. “The doctors cannot carry out the tests since they are not meant for the same. The technologists are meant to carry out various investigations at the clinical laboratories and establishments. We have been doing this job for decades now and questioning our ability at this point of time is no less than an insult to the whole fraternity,” said the clinical laboratory owners.
The laboratory owners said that their senior colleagues would train and guide the doctors as and when they would visit Government Medical College Srinagar or Government Medical College Jammu as part of their course curriculum. They said that a senior doctor posted as Project Director in one of the allied wings of Health & Medical Education department refused to sit on a chair once a senior laboratory owner entered his office chamber adding that a teacher has come to visit him.
President, Kashmir Diagnostic Centres Association (KDCA) Umar Iqbal Dhar said that the government should immediately withdraw the order since it infringes upon the ability, dignity and credibility of owners of clinical laboratory or establishment especially the senior ones. He called for intervention of Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha in this regard while demanding immediate roll-back. |
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