Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sep 4: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today welcomed High Court order on a ban of private practice by doctors working in Government-run hospitals and said that for the revival of the health sector in J&K ban on private practice imperative.
Jammu and Kashmir High Court yesterday in its order said, DAK stated, that doctors cannot be permitted to use their employment and public facilities for building private practices and commercial exploitation.
“Private practice is taking a heavy toll on poor patients,” DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement issued here.
“It is ironical that full-time government doctors are allowed to run private clinics depriving poor and underprivileged of essential health care,” he said.
He said that private practice has eaten away our health institutions and is responsible for rising corruption in the health and medical education.
“Doctors spend most of their time in private clinics and are not available in hospitals. Their attention and time are directed towards their private clinics,” he said.
He said if a doctor entertains a huge number of patients in the morning and evening at his/her private clinic, with the tired mind what justice he/she can deliver to patients at hospitals.
He said patients in government hospitals are left to the mercy of trainees who lack the expertise to handle complicated cases.
Patients die of misdiagnosis or delayed intervention due to non-availability of senior doctors who most of the times are in their private clinics, he said.
He said that if the present dispensation is serious to revive the health sector and mitigate the sufferings of poor people, it should immediately ban the private practice of Government doctors.
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