Hakeem Yaseen rues shortage of staff in hospitals

Jammu, Feb 13: Chairman Peoples Democratic Front (PDF) and former Minister Hakeem Muhammad Yaseen has expressed serious concern over the poor health care facilities in various hospitals mainly due to the acute shortage of staff.

He has also rued staff shortage in various educational institutions. Hakeem said despite having sufficient number of trained and competent doctors , specialists , nurses and highly qualified educated youth available here , government has failed to device a fast track recruitment system to overcome staff scarcity.

In a statement he has urged the government to launch a fast track recruitment process to fill up all vacancies of doctors ,specialist doctors and paramedical staff in various health institutions and vacancies of teaching staff in educational institutions. Hakeem said it was most unfortunate that well trained doctors ,specialist doctors and nurses were compelled to move to oversees countries for seeking job , though we have large number of vacancies lying unfilled due to faulty planning .

Criticising government claims about the availability of adequate health care facilities in various health centers and hospitals and launching of National Education Policy (NEP ) , Hakeem Yaseen said in absence of adequate staff in hospitals and educational institutions , one can never expect upto the mark delivery of services.

He said that government claims about better health facilities in hospitals and successful implementation of national education policy were far from the ground reality . He said some of primary health institutions are equipped with world class diagnostic apparatus but these high tech machines are gathering dust due to non appointment of specialists and technical experts.