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| Experts demand merger of medical education with health services in JK | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 25: If on one hand experts demand end to the double control of the G.B.Pant hospital in Srinagar, which hit the newspaper headlines because of death of over 400 infants in a span of a few months, on the other these experts favour merging the portfolio of Medical Education with the Health services. A couple of senior doctors, who spend a retired life, say that soon after the Government split the Health Ministry in two segments, one under the care of the Health Minister and the other under the supervision of Minister for Medical Education, the rot has surfaced in the health services in the hospitals, dispensaries, medical colleges and other primary health centres. Even the one-man commission, that was set up to conduct a probe into the high rate of infant deaths in the G B Pant hospital has opposed dual control and has held this dual control responsible for mismanagement. The inquiry report of one-man Commission on GB Pant Hospital deaths has recommended that the dual control of the health institute by Cantonment Board and JK Government should be abrogated as it has led to malpractices in the hospital. The report has said the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between State and defence authorities 'is the root cause of its abysmal functioning and services'. It said that a drug mafia was run inside the health institution in connivance with some doctors and the medical shop owner inside the hospital premises which was allotted by the Cantonment Board 'in violation of MoU' signed between the Board and State's Health and Medical Education Department. "Immediately after the MoU was signed, the Cantonment Board started commercial activities in the hospital through parking slots, canteens and medical shops and the revenue generated through these assets goes into the Boards kitty's contrary to MoU," the report has observed. As per the MoU, the sources said the revenue generated in the hospital should be deposited in Hospital Development Fund. Experts say that when the two medical colleges and the Sheri Kashmir inst itute of Medical sciences in Srinagar fall in the jurisdiction of the Minister for Medical Education and the district hospitals and primary health centres fall in the lap of the Health Minister one cannot expect firm coordination between the doctors in the medical colleges and the district hospitals.
They demand that the G.B.Pant hospital be brought under the jurisdiction of thee state Government and the health department be merged with medical education so that the entire health services and medical education were looked after by one minister. |
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