Doctors slam JK govt for raiding clinics

Coming down heavily on the Jammu and Kashmir government for failing in providing basic health care to common people of the Valley, the Doctors Association of Kashmir on Saturday said that the health department is contemplating change in rules for the welfare of other departments, which ‘smells nepotism and ill intentions’.

Addressing a press conference, President Doctors Association of Kashmir (DAK) Nisar-ul-Hassan criticized the government for conducting raids on private clinics and humiliating doctors who indulge in private practice.

He said it is really sorry to state that the government has leaked out those videos which show how doctors were humiliated.

Nisar said that if government is sincere then it should implement a blanket ban on the private practice of doctors.

“Government is not sincere and cares a fig for people. Not speaking of constructing hospitals, it doesn?t care to provide basic infrastructure for different hospitals, instead it humiliates the doctors in the garb of private practice,” Nisar said.

Criticizing the government for making a mess of the medical profession, the spokesman of the DAK, Dr Mir Mushtaq, said that Government had assured in the State Legislature Assembly that no doctor from medical education shall be brought as Head of Department for Health Department.

However, still out of five doctors four were from medical education department, he said.

“This is humiliation to the entire Health fraternity,” he said.

Pertinently, the government in recent past has conducted raids on various private clinics. Various doctors indulged in private practice were booked.