Excelsior Correspondent
CHATROO, Aug 8: In a shameful act, the doctor at Primary Health Center Chatroo in Kishtwar district denied treatment to a lady on the pretext that no treatment is available in the hospital after 2 PM forcing the MLA Inderwal G M Saroori to rush to the hospital which was found locked and several doctors, para medical staff was found absent from the duty after the concerned MLA inspected the attendance register.
It was only after the interference of the MLA GM Saroori that the lady patient who was hit by an ox in abdomen and was suffering from the pain got the treatment. The injured lady after being hit by ox was rushed by her brother to the PHC Chatroo for the treatment, but the doctor on duty refused to treat her on the pretext that the duty time was over.
After denial of the treatment, the brother of the lady brought the matter into the notice of concern MLA who was luckily present in the area and after hearing about it he immediately rushed to the hospital and found the hospital locked. After coming to know about the MLA visit to Hospital, the doctor immediately rushed to the hospital.
After examining the attendance registers of the staff including NHM doctors roaster, MLA Inderwal found that around 14 doctors and staff posted in the hospital were absent from the duty and even found the attendance registers blank for the first three days of the August month as there was no leave or any other thing mentioned about the absentees staff members which shows that the authorities at the helm of the affairs were hand in glove to promote absenteeism culture through mutually benefited agreement.
The MLA said that on the basis of the public complaints about growing absenteeism culture and non delivery of the health facilities to the people, he conducted a surprise inspection of Primary Health Centre (PHC) Chatroo of district Kishtwar and found the doctors absent from duty. He said that the visit was in view of the persistent complaints by the people regarding non-availability of medicos and paramedical staff in the hospital during odd hours.
Saroori while inspecting PHC Chatroo found 14-17 staff members, including medicos, paramedics, and technical staff of the laboratory absent from the duty. He asked CMO and DC Kishtwar to take strict action against the absent staff.
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