Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) led by Dr Suhail Nayak on Friday said that non-implementation of transfer policy in Health department is proving detrimental for rural health care delivery system and has sabotaged its optimal functioning.
The DAK (S) president, Dr Suhail Naik in a statement saidthat the transfer policy was framed for the smooth functioning of healthinstitutions particularly located in far-flung and border areas.
“As per the transfer policy, every doctor has to necessarilyserve for a minimum period of two years in category “A” (very difficult) andfor five years in category “B/C” (difficult) health institutions in his/herfirst seven years of service. But it is pathetic that large number of doctorswho are posted to Tanghdar, Uri, Noorabad, Pahalgam, Larnoo, Kapran, Kangan andother far flung areas, are serving in these difficult areas for last twodecades without a single transfer and many of them are suffering fromneuropsychiatric disturbances,” Dr Naik said.
Dr Owais H Dar, General Secretary DAK (S) said that thejunior doctors who have been parachuted as health administrators have slowlydegraded and dented this noble profession. “Their inability to implement manycentrally sponsored public friendly schemes on ground level has invariablyincreased the sufferings and miseries of common masses. Projecting massive workdone of rural doctors and under carpeting their failures to get awards andpromotions is travesty of justice,” Dr Dar added.
He said that DAK demands that it is high time forrestoration of administrative seniority with appointment of Healthadministrators strictly as per recruitment rules.
“We request Advisor K Vijay Kumar and Principal/FinancialCommissioner Health and Medical Education department, Atal Dullo to kindly lookinto this issue so that justice is done with both the system and public atlarge,” he added.