Srinagar: Authorities at the Kashmir’s lone maternity Lala Ded hospital have failed to check the menacing tip culture, which has been irking patients as well as their attendants. Scores of hapless people hailing from far off places of Kashmir Valley not only blamed nursing staff and maids for looting attendants whenever a female patient attains motherhood but they also alleged that private security guards deployed at the gates also demand bribe from them for making an entry into the hospital.
Accusing hospital administration of failing to curb the menace of corruption in the hospital a delegation of attendants said that Lal Ded hospital had become the hub of corruption and in the name of tip maids and nursing staff were looting the poor attendants and patients who arrived in the hospital from far flung areas.
This hospital is in complete mess and has become a junkyard and hub of malpractices. The maids and nurses attending patients hold your collar if you refuse to pay them tip (bribe). They have courage to demand the bribe in front of senior doctors and sometimes even humiliate you in case you fail to grease their palms, Bashir Gorsi a shepherd from frontier district Kupwara said.
They alleged that Hospital administration was well aware of this fact but dont take any action or initiative to stop this menace. For every newborn baby, you have to pay Rs 500 as tip. CCTV cameras show everything and the higher ups in the hospital watch everything but act as mute spectators, another attendant from Pakharpora said adding that private security present on gate too demand bribe from the attendants and it is happening under the nose of hospital administration.
When contacted, Medical Superintendent Lal Ded Hospital, Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Rather said the attendants must approach him immediately if anyone demands bribe from them. I appeal one and all to immediately inform the administration in case they face any inconvenience in the hospital. There is no place for the corrupt in the hospital, he said.
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