Rakesh Aathur
We all have heard that doctors are second to God on the earth, before God almost patient cum parents has greater hope on his / her medical practitioner, who advises, authorizes, devises with legal medical advises when a patient visits them. A true doctor is better to all medicines that he or she prescribes while checking and relieving a patient from diseases. There is quite specialization in the legal medical professions i.e. technicians, surgeons, physicians, orthopedics, dermatologists, pediatricians, etc And such specialization if among the wards available in the government hospitals, there across the J&K U.T and India, how much secure the innocent and poor people may feel. But there still we are far from such specialization of the facilities and a bias in the minds and hearts of the patients. Because so many of the patients would used to run towards private practice places like clinics, hospitals, private venues which also running by or under partnership of governmental doctors where they use extra time than their duty bounded venues called private practice without any accountability for the extra kind of earnings.
Due to which the poor people of the rural and urban areas are facing a lot of problems and dying at the early stage in the governmental hospitals. Because lucrative and voracious practices of these government practitioners at private places has coerced to the poor people to die on the first stage of the disease. As most of the doctors serving in the governmental hospitals are time passing and they are totally bent became towards their private practices for the sack of extra and lucrative earnings only. Due to which the doctors class had hoarded a huge quantity of wealth in the kind of money, materials, landed property there in India and abroad too, likely erected tall and high buildings, clinics and private hospitals etc which in other sense one may declare it as black money here there in the India and Abroad owing to which there are causing a high rated drain of wealth from Indian soil to abroad on the on hand and there consistently causing loss of professionalism to the own nation on high scale on the other hands. In addition there disinterest of the common man towards the governmental hospitals is growing at par too. But lopsided governmental response in lieu of ban of private practices by the governmental doctors is seeming rein less, owing to which poor people across the Jammu and Kashmir U.T as well as India are incurring a lot off loss. So many years have ran with the vociferous for banning it but it always remains to be in the cool box because of high handed approach of few of the same professionals may be! There are several of the medical professionals like surgeons, physicians, ENT, Eye specialists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, dermatologists; technicians are earning a huge chunk of money and wealth at their own rates and charges without caring the interests of a common man. During this children are facing a lot of problems along with their parents because they fell ill very easily while ending and coming seasons and remains under diseases like coughing, headache, indigestion, fever, cough, etc and their parents has to visit the nearby hospitals by time & again to pediatricians but did not satisfied with the prescriptions and check up in the government hospitals meant they bent to visit the their private places where they charges lucrative fee and costly medicines without caring the monetary condition of the parents, there same practitioners used to prescribe with good medicines plus advises to which they used to conceal at their governmental hospitals . And soon aftermath of it there the parents recognize the good result and when one of the parent observes it they advises to others. The history of golden card/ health card is not proving with best results in the union territory, because there is complete lack of information of money withdrawn and balance to the beneficiary. In which nothing any exact calculation can be calculated when a beneficiary use it because proper information regarding amount deducted from it is not screened to the beneficiaries. Within a short while there will be huge scam of health facility may be highlighted because beneficiaries are not feeling satisfied with its present circulation in the empanelled hospitals and others. In so many of the governmental hospitals there a doctors are using it vehemently without assigning the bills and account of the same. Despite so many facilities started for the general people are lacks in formal checks, therefore every beneficiary wanted to have with the proper checks and golden card account settlement information after every treatment whether it may conducted in governmental or empanelled hospitals by the governmental and private doctors. Due to loopholes in the formal check-ups of the medical policies of the central and union territory are still prevalent vehemently owing to which poor people are suffering in the rural areas mostly. No doubt there is greater disequilibrium in the income level of both rural and urban people living in the union territory of the Jammu & Kashmir therefore the rural children are already facing the differential calorie intake owing to which they fall victim to contagious and non contagious diseases very faster than urban area’s children because their immune system is quite lower than the their counterparts and the doctors mainly deployed are opting their keen practices in the private clinics and venues as par time are vehemently eroding the poor section’s money in the kind of lucrative fee and other prescriptions including medicines. Meant we have heard that the governmental doctors are working on the very norms that they use to charge with the extra commissions from the company for prescription of their medicines and other in such situation when governmental doctors would use to have private practices the frail section of the society become like moth eaten- up and face the wealth problem in order to meet their both hands daily life. Therefore there is stronger need to ban the private practices of the governmental doctors in UT. In this way we may assign an opportunity to the vacant doctors who are in wait to join government job and other private professionals. People across the region are in greater hope from Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha may take strict and prompt action in this direction.
