Though expansion of private healthcare sector is throwing up a huge challenge to Government run public heath sector in Jammu & Kashmir but compromise on the negligence of doctors in the conduct of surgeries is as much visible in private health care sector as much it is in visible in Government run hospitals including the main referral hospitals in both Srinagar and Jammu. As far as quality healthcare is concerned the unprecedented delays caused in upgradation of infrastructure for the conduct of surgeries at the hospitals run by either the government or the private entrepreneurs is a matter of grave concern. While a road map for upgrading the surgical health infrastructure could intensity of the deaths of the patients at Government run hospitals, the regulation of surgical infrastructure availability could improve performance of surgeries at the private hospitals and nursing homes both in Kashmir valley and Jammu. In a very sorry state of affairs the complaints about deaths of patients due to negligence of doctors are equally intensifying against both Government run hospitals and as wells private hospitals and nursing homes month after month and year after year in both Kashmir valley and Jammu division. Administrative demands that Government takes a serious of every complaint about death of patients due to negligence of doctors at both Government and Private hospitals with the purpose of digging out the root causes of the negligence of doctors in conduct of surgeries at both Government and private hospitals. Since deaths caused by negligence by doctors during or after the surgeries can be best probed by only medical experts , administrative wisdom demands that negligence of doctors leading to deaths of patients during or after the surgeries are probed by the best medical experts of the country.
Government can take lenient views on complaints on negligence of doctors in one or few cases but taking a lenient view on negligence of doctors in the death of each and every patient has set a very dangerous precedence and such lenient views are consuming dozens and dozens of human lives annually. Time has come for the health and medical educative department to take a serious view of the negligence of doctors in conduct of surgeries at both private and Government hospitals and put in place a time a bound mechanism for probe of such cases for the purposes of stringent punish with the intent of reduce the intensity of the deaths of patients due to negligence of doctors. .
Unless and until the probes about negligence of doctors leading to deaths of patients at both the government and private the hospitals are not probed well by medical experts of national repute, the accountability of doctors at both the Government and private hospitals can’t be established. Government can take lenient views on complaints on negligence of doctors in one or few cases but taking a lenient view on negligence of doctors in the death of each and every patient has set a very dangerous precedence and such lenient views are consuming dozens and dozens of human lives annually. Time has come for the health and medical educative department to take a serious view of the negligence of doctors in conduct of surgeries at both private and Government hospitals and put in place a time a bound mechanism for probe of such cases for the purposes of stringent punish with the intent of reduce the intensity of the deaths of patients due to negligence of doctors. .
