Violating Standards

Medicine has become one of the vulnerable fields in which it is easier for doctors to moonlight and practice a secondary way to supplement their income by running private clinics. During working hours at the hospital, private practice has been banned, therefore, no doctor can actually attend his clinic when he is supposed to be on his duty. The second menace has been standard treatment measures taken by doctors in order to treat patients. It is not the first time doctors are accused either of illegitimate private practice during working hours at hospitals or of unsatisfactory treatment methods experimented on patients. Some of them are repeatedly following the same methodology even after rigorous complaints from the public and strict warnings from the administration. There are Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs) issued by National Health Authority for doctors practising medicine in hospitals or medical centres. All the doctors are expected to follow the guidelines to make sure the best treatment reaches the public and should be a value for their hard-earned money. Regretfully, there are still some medical practitioners in our community who aren’t well-versed in medicine and its authenticity. Doctors seldom bother about patients’ health or their precious lives. It indirectly pushes the thought forth that all they bother about is the money they earn at the cost of patients’ lives. Three doctors from Kashmir have been banned from practising private treatment across the Union territory for violating the STGs. There is a need of cleansing the department of medicine by removing doctors who are not worth the field.