JKNPP holds protest against health department in J&K

The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) activists today held protest outside the office of Director Health services Jammu against the "ailing" health care sector in the state.
"The JKNPP activists held a demonstration outside the office of Director Health in protest against the ailing health care sector in the state and the shabby plight of various health institutes suffering for want of staff, medicines equipments," JKNPP Chairman Harsh Dev Singh said.
"Mis-governance, rampant corruption, transfer industry, spurious drugs, large scale attachments and deployments, acute deficiency of doctors and para medical staff especially in the remote area, non availability of medicines and equipments in Health institutions and mushrooming growth of quacks and non-registered practitioners was rampant in the department," Singh alleged.

He said that repeated complaints and representations to the Health authorities had fallen on to deaf ears in view of the political patronage enjoyed by the delinquents.
Not only had the menace of patronized quacks and spurious drugs has assumed alarming proportions but several drugs with advance manufacturing date of 2016 had entered the market making mockery of the claims of government, he alleged.
Lambasting the health department for the extremely shabby plight of health institutes especially in rural areas, Singh said that they neither had the staff, nor infrastructure, medicines and requisite medical Equipments.
He accused the Minister of Health of "indulging in self flattery and self idolatry without taking any initiative to bring reforms in the department".

Minister must realize that mere "threatening of doctors to wear aprons, imposition of fines, making selective attachments and suspensions of lower rung officials would not suffice until concrete measures were taken to stem the rot," he added.