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| Docs in the dock over Shopian fudging | | Action likely against CMO over departmental inquiry report | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Sep 30: Government is likely to take administrative action, including suspension and attachment, against two more doctors of the state Health Department over the report of an in-house inquiry being conducted by a 3-member committee headed by Director Health Services of Kashmir, Dr Mohammad Amin Wani.
Minister of Health, Sham Lal, told Early Times that he had ordered the departmental inquiry after he found “indications of serious lapses” on the part of the doctors who had conducted the post mortem of the two women, Neelofar and Aasiya, found dead in Shopian in mysterious and controversial circumstances on May 30th this year. He said that Dr Nighat Shaheen and one more doctor had been placed under suspension for their glaringly unprofessional conduct in holding the autopsy and gynecological examination of the dead bodies.
Minister said that as soon as he studied Jan Commission of Inquiry report which was tabled in the state Legislature in the month of August, he lost no time to order a 3-member departmental inquiry, headed by Director Health Services Kashmir, Dr Mohammad Amin Wani. He said that the committee was directed to find procedural and other lacunae, related to conducting the autopsy and per vaginal, and asked to submit its report within one month.
“Over a month has passed now. We remained preoccupied with legislative business, plan meetings and district board meetings. I believe the committee has completed 80 percent of the task and it is expected to submit its report within a few days”, Minister said and asserted that nobody, howsoever influential, would be spared for unprofessional, unethical and criminal conduct. He made it clear that the committee would carry out the investigation in view of fresh developments and try to find out whether Dr Nighat Shaheen was the one-odd character involved in the criminal fudging of the vaginal swab of the two deceased women or others of her team had also contributed to it.
Chief Medical Officer, Dr Ghulam Qadir Sofi, who was then Dy CMO of Pulwama, and Dr Mohammad Maqbool Mir were other members of the team that claimed to have conducted the post mortem and per vaginal of the deceased women on May 30th. CBI has, of late, observed that the vaginal smear slides had been collected by Dr Nighat Shaheen from about 20 female patients at District Hospital of Pulwama rather than from the two dead bodies at District Hospital of Shopian.
Dr Shaheen’s husband has now complained in media that his wife was being made a “scapegoat” and others of her team had neither been placed under suspension nor covered by SIT’s or CBI’s inquiry. He has also threatened to reveal everything at a news conference. Meanwhile, CBI’s post mortem team, which exhumed the dead bodies and conducted a fresh post mortem two days ago, has observed that unmarried Aasiya’s hymen was “intact”--- a conclusive biological evidence that the young woman had never been raped. It has given a more serious turn to the entire process of investigation.
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