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| Valley doctors warned of action against private practice | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sep 25 : Concerned over the allegations that majority government doctors are doing private practice in their clinics, the Jammu and Kashmir government has warned them to devote themselves to the services of the people in the hospitals and other health centres or face action.The doctors are charging much more against the fees fixed by the government in 2006.
Official sources said here today that there are allegations from all parts of the state, particularly in Kashmir valley, that majority doctors are doing private practice at their clinics instead of attending patients in the government hospitals and other health centres.
A correspondent who visited a number of hospitals, including SMHS hospital, saw junior doctors attending the patients while seniors and Head of Departments (HoD) hardly visits their wards.However, if any HoD visits his ward, he simply talk to junior doctors and left to his room without meeting patients, sources said.
On the Eid-ul-Fitr, a group of doctors in the causalty world attended hundreds of patients and also performed more than a dozen surgeries, mostly appendix.
Similar situation was witnessed in Jawahar Lal Nehru Hospital at Rainawari where only one doctor and few paramedical staff members were present on Eid day. However, they too were referring the patients to SMHS hospital.
A patient from Pulwama said he was admitted in a local hospital where nobody was to attend him for 24 hours. ''It was only we rushed to SMHS Hospital without informing the Pulwama hospital on Eid day, I survived,'' he said adding that immediately after reaching SMHS doctors operated upon him and removed his appendix which had bursted.''I was told by the doctors that any more delay would have resulted in death,'' he said.
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