Srinagar. Feb 10 : Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday discussed a meeting for comprehensive preventive and promotive health package provided by rural health sector in union territory of J & K.
In a statement, President DAK, Dr Suhail Naik said that despite appointment of one thousand medical officers, there is adverse doctor- patient ratio in Union Territory of J&K.
“Excluding Summer and Winter capital the fragility of health care system is obvious and it is prime responsibility of the administration to upgrade the health care delivery system by creating and promoting specialist to consultants with predefined caderization,” he said.
Furthermore it is very imperative to appointment the second line faculty tier in five new medical colleges on fast track basis to provide best medical education to medical graduates and refined promotive, preventive and curative care to public at doorsteps, he added.
General Secretary DAK, Dr Owais H Dar said that there is uneven distribution and apparent discrepancy in number and distribution of different consultant posts across J&K.
Citing an example he said there is no senior consultant posts for anaesthesia, dermatology and psychiatry and while there is only one senior consultant post for Radiology, Paediatrics and Dentistry.
Dr Masood Rashid General Secretary, Society of Consultant Doctors (SCD) said that non uniform distribution of consultant and senior consultant posts across the Union territory is pathetic. While elaborating on topic he added that department of Radiology has only 8 consultant posts in Kashmir, while Jammu has 19 posts and there is no senior Consultant post in the valley. Similarly department of Gynecology has four senior Consultant posts in Jammu division and none in Kashmir or Ladakh.
Doctors Association Kashmir DAK requests the administration to create new consultant and senior Consultant posts across J&K and bring uniformity in distribution.
DAK further requested LG GC Murmu to look into this serious issue which pertains to public health delivery at large, a statement reads.
