B’pora residents demand upgradation of SDH

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Call authorities to discipline docs, paramedics
Mir Tariq
Bandipora, April 14: People in this North Kashmir district have demanded upgradation of facilities in Sub District Hospital (SDH). They have also called on authorities to discipline the doctors and para-medical staff in the hospital.The poor medicare facilities in SDH Bandipora are giving sleepless nights to the people. “The hospital lacks basic facilities and the proper medicare is not provided to the people, who visit the hospital to seek consultations,” complained the people.
They said that the hospital faces shortage of doctors and paramedical staff. Mushtaq Ahmad said, “I am accompanying my mother to the hospital and I did not find any staffer including doctors here except a canteen owner. After locating the hospital staff, I sought their help but they abused me". Zubair Ahmad, attendant of another patient said, “The hospital should be closed as it faces shortage of doctors and para-medical staff. What is the fun of having a hospital, when required numbers of doctors and paramedics are not available there”. Complaining about the non-specialized and untrained staff, Muhammad Muzaffer said "Whenever I visit the hospital, I find the hospital staff chatting in a nearby hotel rather than fulfilling their duties in the hospital.”He added, “Once I sought their help and instead of lending helping hand to me, they used abusive language”.Raja Begum of Bohotu village said, "I left my home early in the morning and waited for five hours in the out-patient department to consult a doctor. The influential persons were being let inside by the doctor while the poor were asked to wait. Some of the waiting people had to return empty handed”.The residents complained that most of the doctors and para-medical staff are not behaving properly with the patients and their attendants. “They don’t follow the norms while dealing with people,” said the locals.After receiving complaints from people, Director Health services visited SDH Bandipora last week and attached Block Medical officer Abdul Rashid in Directorate Office Srinagar under order No.437 GAZ 2008 vide endorsement no DHSK/GAZ/4383-86 Dtd.225.03.2008. “The former BMO is now harassing the local population as we complained against him before director health services Kashmir,” alleged the residents.President Bandipora welfare Forum Ghulam Mohammed Mir told Rising Kashmir that the local staff including doctors and paramedics should be disciplined. “They should be told to behave properly with patients and their attendants. Most of them have been posted in the hospital from long and should be transferred and the trained staff should be deputed to the hospital so that proper medicare is available to the patients,” he added.He said that in case higher authorities fail to discipline and transfer the staff, they would approach chief minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad and seek his intervention.When contacted, commissioner secretary Health K.B Jandial told Rising Kashmir "We have transferred Block Medical Officer (BMO) Bandipora and new officer has been sent to SDH Bandipora”. He added, “If any of the staffer in the hospital is found resorting to indiscipline, action will be taken against him”.