Srinagar: The employees of the premier health Institution, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, (SKIMS) Friday staged protest against the hospital authorities. The employees threatened to go on mass leave and halt the transport facilities being provided to senior officials of the hospital.
The employees while protesting in the hospital premises against the director and other senior officials stated that an employee Farooq Ahmad Sanga suffered serious brain hemorrhage on June 7.
He was admitted in the hospital and his family was told to purchase various surgical items and medicines worth 70 thousand rupees. After the same was purchased by Farooqs family, the doctors told them to shift him to home and that the surgery cannot be carried out. If such is the treatment meted out to the employee of the hospital what would be the condition of the general patients, alleged one of the protesting employee.
They stated that Farooq who works as a helper in SKIMS, suffered critical injuries in September last when a vehicle crushed him. He at that time was shifted to JVC hospital wherein he underwent three surgeries. The employees said that not even a single penny was given to Farooq by his department and that it was his poor family that had to bear the brunt of his illness.
The employees while accusing the director SKIMS of resorting to anti-employee approach said that he has virtually changed SKIMS into a corporate hub wherein the poor patients have no place. The section of the employees in the Hospital Friday decided to go for the mass leave against the official apathy, thus choking the transport facilities to the senior officials. (KNS)
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