Srinagar, Feb 23 (KNS): Seeking caderization of medical officers, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that it would end stagnation which has led to disinterest among hundreds of medical officers of the health department.
In a statement to KNS, President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan said that non-caderization has blocked career opportunities of medical officers who are frustrated and disappointed with this victimization.
While consultants have cadres of their own, but medical officers who are the backbone of primary health care are deprived of promotion benefits.
They are recruited by public service commission and are never promoted to next level or rank and they retire with the same position.
Despite, many representations were made by DAK, but to our disappointment, issue has been neglected by successive regimens.
Medical officer plays a pivotal role in primary health care which has not been a success in Kashmir as policy makers have completely ignored it.
While in other parts, primary health care has reduced sickness and fatalities, but in Kashmir it has failed to deliver and meet patients’ needs.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
We still have outbreaks of infective diseases like typhoid, cholera and hepatitis because of fragmented, disorganized and disintegrated primary care.
As a result of abysmal primary health patients, more often than not, end up in going to tertiary care hospitals even for basic health care needs.
Lack of facilities, no trained staff and lack of co-ordination in primary health are responsible for poor health outcomes.
The deliveries in peripheries are conducted in extreme unhygienic conditions by untrained and unskilled persons which is responsible for high maternal and infant mortality.
There is epidemic of hypertension, diabetes and cancer because of non-implementation of the concept of population- centric primary care.
Frankly, it is a downright dull and in the process rural poor become victims. (KNS)