Srinagar- The medical superintendent of SKIMS Medical College Bemina has ordered a psychiatric checkup of employees for their personal as well as the wellbeing of patient care, since the strain of staff members has escalated, resulting in ‘psychiatric breakdown’.
An excessive workload, disagreement with superiors or coworkers, or impending deadlines might cause a decline in job performance, anxiety and despair among the staffers, according to a psychiatrist at the Psychiatric Hospital Srinagar.
Stress-related issues, he said, are reported from all hospitals where patient traffic remains high and the pressure on staff is severe.
The Medical Superintendent of SKIMS Medical College Bemina in an official communiqué to the Head of the Department (HoD) Psychiatry has claimed that the frequency of work-related stress has been high in the hospital.
“It has been observed that the employees of the hospital side are having stress symptoms at work, the frequency seems at the higher rate as is evident from various episodes that are happening on a day to day basis,” reads MS’s letter, dated November 18, 2023.
You are hereby requested to chart out a program so that the employees get the psychiatric checkup for the well being of the employees and patient care, it adds.
Muzaffar Jan, secretary to the Medical Superintendent, SKIMS Medical College Bemina told Kashmir Observer that a periodic psychiatric examination is a standard practice to ascertain an employee’s mental health.
“These kinds of drills happen occasionally, so there’s no need to freak out. Employees too are humans and experience stress occasionally for a variety of reasons, that does not always indicate that the issue is more serious. We still review the order tomorrow to see what needs to be done,” he added.
However the Secretary’s account of events differed from that of the staff of SKIMS Medical College Bemina, who said that employees’ distress stems from an excessive workload.
“Like our bosses, we too have families and kids back home, and we want to spend time with them. However, the excessive pressure at the hospital prevents us from spending time with our families, and the volume of patients makes it seem unattainable,” an employee at the department of medicines told Kashmir Observer on the basis of anonymity.
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