Health employees, doctors reject call for Kashmir bandh

Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, May 4: Expressing satisfaction over fast track probe by the Government over spurious drug scam in the State, Health Employees Co-ordination Committee, Kashmir Division, has rejected the call for bandh on May 6.
A high level executive council meeting of the Committee was held here in JLNM hospital under the chairmanship of S Indrabi, president Health Employees Coordination Committee, for threadbare discussion in context with the present propaganda of spurious drugs and the statement in some newspapers against the Health Department, its officers and officials.
The executive council unanimously decided to expose the nefarious designs of elements who are bent upon to tarnish the image of the Health Department, said G N Prangi, Chairman HECC.
The meet decided to stay away from the bandh call on May 6 in the interests of patients and unnecessarily exploitation.
Highlighting the role of department in implementation of Centrally sponsored schemes like NRHM, RNTCP, AYUSH etc, Mohammad Altaf Handoo and Malik Farooq, general secretaries of HECC, observed that former Health Minister Sham Lal and Director Health Services  Dr Saleem Rehman  played a pivotal role in upgradation of JLNM Hospital to a super specialist apex hospital.
HECC unanimously decided to fight against the evils of drugs menace in the valley so that common people do not suffer and no body is allowed to play petty politics for their personal interests.
Prominent among those who attended the meeting were Gh Mohammad Mir, Ab Ahad Qureshi, Pervaiz Ahmad, Bashir Ahmad, Azaz Ahmad Khan, Mohd Yaseen, Gh Hassan Lone, Javed Ahmed and others.
Meanwhile, senior leaders Fayaz Ahmad Kar, Chairman Technical Association Health Department and Bashir Ahmad Narbali, President Drivers Association have also rejected the bandh call.
Doctors Association Jammu has also condemned the call for bandh on May 6 in Kashmir Division.
Terming the bandh call as unjustified since the matter was under investigation and sub judice, the Association said that some unscrupulous people having their own vested interest wanted to derail the State drug policy from its being implemented.
Drug Mafia in Kashmir is hell bent not to get the Drug Policy and Jan Aushdalya for poor people and free medicines to be implemented in J&K since it would hamper their own business, the Association said.

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