SRINAGAR The Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Thursday said that the doctors who are posted in the far off areas have developed suicidal tendencies.
In a statement issued here the doctors body demanded a rotational transfer policy from difficult zone to medical colleges and vice versa so that doctors posted in far flung areas will get updated with recent advances, scientific knowledge and also get over all a psychological relief.
The doctors who have been posted to far flung areas for decades together have developed suicidal tendencies and progressive degradation in their professional skill, said president DAK, Suhail Naik.
The rotational transfer policy should aim to harmonise objectives of comprehensive health care, avoid development of vested interests, and provide exposure to rural doctors working in different hospitals to recent advances ensuring overall growth of medical officers. The rotational transfer policy will provide opportunity to all doctors to work in medical colleges to get upgraded with recent knowledge and skills added Suhail Naik.
DAK general secretary, Dr Owais H Dar, has said that the rotational transfer policy will be a dynamic process where a medical officer is moved from difficult zone posting to medical colleges and that will provide vibrancy to to the entire health care delivery system.
The transfer should operate spontaneously as soon as a doctor completes the minimum prescribed tenure or stay. The rotation of medical officers from rural health care to medical colleges from time to time, subject to the operational needs and requirements of the medical colleges will refine the professional skill of doctors, added Dr Owais.
Vice President DAK, Dr Mohd Ashraf, has said that the 480 doctors of rural health department who are deputed to medical colleges have political and bureaucratic clout and are enjoying comfortable life with extra allowances in capital cities.
It is undemocratic and injustice with whole medical fraternity if deputed doctors to medical colleges for years together are not relieved back to parent department. Government must frame policy where in all over staying doctors from GMCs are relieved to peripheral health sector and new doctors must be deputed to GMCs so that the health care delivery services are not hampered till regular appointments are made in Medical Education department.
Joint Secretary DAK,Dr Arshed H Trag, said that the DAK will submit list of doctors who are posted in far flung areas for more than 5 years so that they can be deputed to higher Canters on rotational basis.
The DAK has asked the Governor, Satya Pal Malik, and Advisor for Health and Medical Education, K Vijay Kumar, to take holistic view in this regard.
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