Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 10: After the Deputy Commissioner Baramulla asked the concerned CMO to seek an explanation from the doctors and paramedics found to be absent from their duties at Trauma Hospital Pattan, Jammu and Kashmir Doctors Coordination at Committee(JKDCC) has called for 2-hour pen down strike across hospitals in J&K today.
The absent doctors also included DAK President Dr Suhail Naik and the action was taken by the SDM Pattan after these doctors were found absent.
JKDCC-which is an amalgam of various doctors associations-expressed resentment against what it called as undue interference by revenue officials in day to day hospital affairs and has demanded transport facility and in-house accommodation for the doctors and paramedics.
Dr M Y Tak who is the Convenor of JKDCC said that the administration has badly failed during this winter’s snowfall and got itself buried as the snow was not cleared from the roads, lanes and by-lanes for days together.
“This administrative apathy caused a lot of difficulty for doctors, paramedics and patients to reach hospitals and consequently a disaster like the situation was palpable,” he said.
Dr Owais H Dar who is the General Secretary of Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) said that the Sub District Magistrate (SDM) Pattan Baramulla through electronic media advised people to avoid travel on Srinagar- Baramulla highway, due to slippery conditions of the road and consequent traffic mess, “but at the same time visited the Trauma Hospital Pattan to check the attendance of medical staff.”
President Doctors Association Jammu, Dr Balvindar said that instead of taking care of basic administrative affairs about day to day life of poor people, “they are busy with checking attendance of hospital staff to divert the attention of common masses and hide their failures.”
JKDCC said that if the undue interference of the revenue officials is not stopped immediately, it will we will be forced to shut down hospitals across the region for which they will be fully responsible for the consequences.
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