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| Is SKIMS present director also going the 'Yakhni' way? | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 15: A staff member hits a doctor with an iron rod, doctors lodge complaint with the police and proceed on strike choosing the most convenient way to punish the patients for none of their faults.
SKIMS is again in news for wrong reasons. Ever since the prestigious super specialty healthcare facility was conceived, it has been in news for wrong reasons.
The first time the hospital hit the headlines was when somebody inside it manipulated the X-ray reports of the hospital's founder, late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah sending shock waves among the common people and the medical fraternity.
During the worst periods of violence, the hospital was reduced to a huge hideout for militants and separatist sympathizers. Hardly could anybody venture into the hospital without the authority of the militants who had converted the hospital into some sort of an administrative secretariat for themselves. This left the professionally oriented doctors and other allied staff with little option other than quit.
Some of the best doctors the hospital had been proud to have on its faculty were forced to quit. Still then, many dedicated doctors, paramedical staff and others kept the doors of the hospital open even during those extremely difficult times.
What suffered more than the reputation and the infrastructure at the hospital was the work culture, patient care, professional excellence and commitment. The hospital become a den of politics with some of the doctors not only joining the political bandwagon for the separatists, but also holding important briefs for many underground militant organizations. The situation had deteriorated to such an extent that a top ranking police officer of the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) was kidnapped by the militants from inside the hospital during that period.
Times have substantially changed since that incident occurred, but alas the mindsets of some of the staff members at the hospital have not. There is no justification otherwise for any employee of the hospital daring to hit a doctor with an iron rod. The incident is nothing but a leftover of the legacy of indiscipline, criminal bent of mind and an absolute lack of administrative control.
What is the management of the hospital doing? Why has there to be always a policy of appeasemen adopted by the director of the hospital to run his show? Closing the doors of the hospital and regulating the entry of attendants and visitors is not the duty of the hospital's director. Any official deployed on security at the hospital should be ordinarily able to successfully enforce this.
The basic duty of the director is to ensure that there is discipline among the doctors, the paramedics and other allied staff. After all, people come and trust their lives with the staff of the hospital. If they have such scant respect for the lives of their own seniors and colleagues as was exhibited when the iron rod response was shown by an employee over something that annoyed him, what is the plight of the ordinary patient?
One former director of the hospital was asked to spell out the high points of his achievement during his tenure and he shamelessly said a foundation stone at the gates of the hospital had been restored to good shape and 'Yakhni' (mutton dish cooked in Yogurt) was being served to the patients admitted at the hospital for treatment!
If one can eat 'Yakhni' when he/she is admitted to a super specialty hospital for indoor treatment, little wonder the hospital bed accommodation has simply been wasted by allowing admission to such a 'highly sick patient'.
The present director started his innings rather well and he appeared to be somebody who would brook no complacency. Alas, Showkat Ali Zargar is also perhaps going done the 'Yakhni' way as did his predecessor who roamed the corridors of the hospital with fuming armed escorts. |
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