{"id":8795,"date":"2017-02-15T19:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T13:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2017-02-15T19:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T13:33:54","slug":"influential-doctors-in-kashmir-given-choicest-postings-and-the-voiceless-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=8795","title":{"rendered":"Influential doctors in Kashmir given choicest postings and the voiceless suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar, Feb 15:<\/strong> Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that influential doctors in Kashmir are given choicest postings in brazen violation of transfer policy.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><em>Taking a strong exception to this, President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that transfer policy of doctors is being blatantly flouted, with the sole objective of giving places of choice to blue-eyed doctors.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Influential get postings to their convenience and comfort and the voiceless suffer.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Health department is defying the transfer policy that was adopted in the interest of patient care and smooth functioning of health institutions especially those located in far-flung areas.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As per the transfer policy, the minimum tenure of a doctor on a post shall be two years and a maximum of three years.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But, the favorites remain posted on their places of choice for decades.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>There are doctors who are posted in a Srinagar hospital for the last 20 years.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>According to the policy, every doctor has to \u201ccompulsorily\u201d serve for a minimum period of two years in Category \u201cA\u201d (very difficult) and for five years in Category \u201cB\/C\u201d (difficult) health institutions in his\/her first ten years of service.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>However, influential doctors enjoy prize postings on their first appointment.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The policy further states that doctors selected in health department against RBA Category shall serve in such areas for a period of no less than seven years.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But, these doctors have never seen their areas.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Some doctors who are engaged on contractual basis for patient care in far-flung areas have been attached to Directorate of Health Services.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hundreds of specialist doctors belonging to health department have been posted in GMC Srinagar, depriving people in far-flung areas of specialist services. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>While the government in a recent order warned employees not to bring influence for transfers, doctors continue to get recommendations for their postings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The favoritism and nepotism has turned health department into an industry of transfers.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As a result, peripheral health care is in complete mess and patients suffer the consequences.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Feb 15: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that influential doctors in Kashmir are given choicest postings in brazen violation of transfer policy. Taking a strong exception to this, President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that transfer policy of doctors is being blatantly flouted, with the sole objective of giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}