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| Why can't a serving doctor head G.B. Pant Hospital? | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jun 2: The state government has admitted that there are 265 vacancies lying vacant in G.B. Pant hospital. This admission has come after an earlier admission that 480 deaths of children have occurred in the hospital this year since January 1.
A division bench of the state High Court hearing a PIL on the deaths of
children in G. B. Pant has observed that there is "total shortfall". Justice Hasnain Masoodi also made a strong observation about the state of affairs at the hospital.
"The figures reveal there is nothing in the hospital," the honourable judge observed. When the court asked the hospital superintendent Dr. Muneer Masoodi to give figures about the admissions of patients at the G.B. Pant hospital, the superintendent said between 600 to 800 report for treatment at the outdoor facility of the hospital on a daily basis. The lawyer who represents the PIL has asked the respondents to file a detailed case by case treatment report in cases of 480 children who died at the hospital between January 1 till date.
The state government has now said Rs. 2 crores will be spent for establishing the childrens' hospital in Bemina locality of the city. The state chief minister, Omar Abdullah has so far visited the hospital twice in the aftermath of the public outcry over the alarming number of deaths at the hospital.
Reacting to extremely disturbing healthcare scenario at the hospital the state government has already replaced the medical superintendent and brought in a retired doctor to head the hospital. While the decision to replace the medical superintendent is justified, the decision to bring in a retired person has again raised many eyebrows. Doesn't the state health department have a single capable doctor available who could head the hospital during the crisis period? Is it always necessary to rope in retired people to help the government wade off crisis situations?
The need of the hour is that the hospital must be put back on the rails quickly and without endangering any further precious life, but at the same time it is very important at the perceptional level to ensure that the hospital is headed by a serving doctor and not someone who comes back from retirement.
When the first Prime Minister of the country, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was asked by someone what would happen to India after his death since a person of his stature and capacity was indispensable, Pandit Nehru said, "Graveyards are full of people who once thought they were indispensable."
Nobody is indispensable, especially in government service. The state health department including the G.B. Pant Hospital must go on without retired heads and if the government thinks anybody is indispensable in the field of healthcare then our healthcare has already reached the end of its road.
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