Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Tuesday took a dig at the state government for its failure to constitute Departmental Promotional Committees (DPCs) for years now so as to promote deserving specialist medical officers to consultants.

Dr Suhail Naik, President, DAK as per the statement issued here said that “It was for the first time in the history of medical profession that forty percent posts were reserved by government for departmental promotion of senior doctors to consultants in order to streamline the human resources in department and to make health care system vibrant and efficient”.

“Departmental promotion of medical officers qualified in different specialties will not only streamline  human resource management in department but will also improve health care at gross root level”, Dr Naik further said. “There was no option of Departmental Promotion in HME till 2015 and it was first time that such thing has happened but unfortunately state government has miserably failed in framing departmental promotional Committee for three years now and it has not only dented the morale of deserving specialists but has taken heavy toll on peripheral health care system also.

Furthermore peripheral health care system is facing acute shortage of consultants of different specialties which is hitting patient care badly” Dr Naik further added.

DAK urged the Health Minister Bhali Bhagat to create departmental promotional Committee and to expedite the process of departmental promotion on war footing basis.

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