Excelsior Correspondent
GANDERBAL, Sept 10: Peoples Revolutionary Society (PRS) and Pensioners Welfare Society (PWS) has expressed grave concern over shortage of doctors and para medical staff in hospitals of Ganderbal district due to which people are facing many hardships as they have to visit for treatment of ailing to other hospitals in Srinagar district.
In a meeting at Ganderbal today held under the chairmanship of PRS chief, Mir Gulam Rasool Batwani the Government was asked to look into the problem and cancel the attachment of doctors by posting them in rural and periphery areas. The meeting said that DH Ganderbal which has a spacious building lacks doctors and para medical staff. Likewise 12 posts of doctors and para medical staff are lying vacant in PHC Batwani and 14 posts in PHC Wakura.
The meeting also expressed concern over posting of Unani doctors in Allopathic dispensaries and PHCs saying that they are unable to treat the patients as they have no knowledge of allopathic medicines. It demanded that Unani doctors be posted in Unani hospitals only.
Others who spoke in the meting included Sheikh Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Shilwati, general secretary of the organization, Mukhtar Ahmed and Mohammed Subhan Dar.
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