Srinagar, Jan 6 (KNS): The PDP-BJP government has so far failed to dismiss or blacklist hundreds of doctors who are not present at their places of postings from last so many years.
Health minister on record has said that the government will dismiss the doctors who won’t report to their duties. “The absent doctors will not only be dismissed from services but will also be blacklisted, rendering them ineligible for any job within the state and other country,” Lal Singh had said.
However sources said that the government does not have any clue about the absent doctors.
Sources told KNS that scores of doctors had left for higher studies without permission of the authorities while as hundreds of other doctors continue to remain absent from their duties and serve in private hospitals in the Gulf, Europe and the United States and United Kingdom and are holding on to their posts in Kashmir.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
“This is leading to a shortage of doctors which is becoming a major cause of ineffective healthcare in Kashmir particularly in the district hospitals,” one of the official of health department said.
As per the rules, the doctors are duty bound to serve in the state. It may be recalled that over two years back the then Medical Education Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din had also decided to issue termination orders of about 300 doctors who remained absent from their duties for years together. Despite his announcement, no action was taken against these doctors later on by his ministry. (KNS)