PIL highlighting shortage of Doctors/Para-Medics in Jammu Province

DB extends four weeks further time to Senior AAG to file response

11/08/2018

JAMMU, Aug 10: A Division Bench of the State High Court comprising Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice Sanjay Kumar Gupta today in the open court extended further four weeks time to Senior AAG H.A. Sidiqui appearing for Chief Secretary J&K, Commi-ssioner/Secretary to Govt. of J&K Health and Medical Education Department, Director Health Services Jammu and Secretary J&K Public Service Commission to file their response to the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the State Government to provide duly sanctioned staff in all the Health Institutions in Jammu Province as out of 259 PHCs, NPHCs and CHCs in the hilly and remotest areas of all the Districts of Jammu Province, 184 of them are running without Doctors and lacking the staff including the Medical Officers/ Consultants and Para-Medical Staff in Sub-District Hospitals, District Hospitals of entire Jammu Province as disclosed from the information furnished by PIO Directorate of Health Services Jammu.
When this Public Interest Litigation filed by Balwinder Singh RTI Activist and Convener of Sangarsh RTI Movement seeking directions to the State Government to detach the additional/surplus staff posted in the various Health Institutions in Jammu City including Directorate of Health Services Jammu came up for hearing Advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed with Advocates Rahul Raina, Suraj Singh and Supriya Chouhan appearing for the petitioner submitted that in Para 28 of the PIL it is clearly submitted that Doctors in Jammu District particularly in Jammu City are surplus and this is the root cause of the failure of health care in the remote areas. Advocate Ahmed further submitted that appropriate directions be issued to the State Government to come forward with the list of Doctors serving in Jammu City and the said list will demonstrate that the influential /politically connected Doctors are serving in Jammu City for the last more than one decade thereby paralyzing the entire health care in the rural areas.JNF

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