*BMO stops salary of 2 absentee doctors
Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Mar 5: Angry relatives of a patient and villagers ransacked hospital furniture in protest after no doctor was found in Sub District Hospital, Darhal late last evening.
Reports said the problem erupted when some people reached the Sub District Hospital at Darhal in Rajouri district around 8 pm on Monday, with a sick child and found no doctor available in the Government hospital.
The angry family members and relatives started vandalizing the hospital property and broke the main gate. They were joined by some other local people who started protest in the hospital complex. They claimed that a 2-year-old child was brought to the Emergency wing of the hospital where only one attendant was available and nobody else. They were told that doctor is coming but they kept for long but nobody turned up.
When the child’s family asked the only employee present at the hospital why the doctor was not available, he told them to talk to the BMO. Even after waiting for about two hours, when the doctor was not available, they shifted the child to GMC Rajouri at their own. The angry people ransacked the hospital furniture and other property.
Block Medical Officer Darhal Dr Sajjad Mirza when contacted said that he had received information over the phone that due to the absence of a doctor in the hospital, some patients and their family members had started creating ruckus, so he immediately reached the hospital and saw that the doctor who was on night duty was not present and was absent from duty without permission. Not only this, doctor’s phone was also switched off. Apart from this, the doctor who was on duty in the evening before the night duty, had also left the hospital for home without waiting for the night duty doctor, due to which people expressed their anger and vandalized hospital property and caused damage to property.
Taking action, the BMO issued show cause notices to both the doctors who were absent from duty, and also issued orders to stop their salaries and formed a committee for inquiry. The salaries of Dr Najmus Saqib Lone and Dr Samina Malik, both Medical Officers of Sub District Hospital, Darhal has been stopped and they have been served show cause notices.
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