SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Nov 1: The deployment of anatomy and physiology departments’ tutors at Sadar Hospitals in different districts has surprised doctors across the state.
Anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry are non-clinical departments and their tutors have roles only at medical colleges in the academic activities of dealing with students, and not patients in health services.
But the state government, while posting 139 RIMS Ranchi and MGMMCH Jamshedpur postgraduate (PG) pass-out doctors, has surprisingly put six tutors on deputation at Sadar Hospitals in four districts under a three-year service bond.
Although Ajay Kumar Singh, the Under Secretary in the health department, on October 30, in a notification, said all 139 PG pass-out doctors have been posted at five medical colleges, namely MGMMCH Jamshedpur, SNMMCH Dhanbad, MMCH Palamu, SBMCH Hazaribagh and PJMCH Dumka, but their deputation has been given at Sadar Hospital of the concerned district.
This is the first time after the creation of Jharkhand that tutors have been deputed in a Sadar Hospital. A retired principal of Patna Medical College Hospital said that a tutor had not been deployed at a hospital ever in the past in any part of the country.
As per the government notification, Dr Ankita Dhan (MS tutor anatomy) has been deployed at Sadar Hospital Dhanbad. Dr Tushar Arya (MD tutor physiology) has been deployed at Sadar Hospital Palamu. Dr Sweta Minal (MD, tutor physiology) has been deployed at Sadar Hospital Dhanbad, Dr Shreyshi Chaitali Ekka (MD tutor physiology) has been deployed at Sadar Hospital Palamu, Dr Manjulika Kachhap (MD tutor physiology) has been deployed at Palamu Sadar Hospital, Dr Peeyush Ranjan (MD tutor physiology) has been deployed at Dumka Sadar Hospital.
No wonder, the health department authorities of these districts are shocked and surprised over the deployment of tutors in their hospitals. A civil surgeon asked what he would do with these tutors. In the name of giving doctors, the state government has deployed them but they are not worth it for patients, he added.
A principal of one of the medical colleges said that by deploying PG pass-out tutors and senior residents at Sadar Hospitals, the state government has killed two birds with one stone.
To fulfill doctors’ deficiencies in all five medical colleges, the government has transferred 139 medicos there but, at the same time, put them on deputation at Sadar Hospitals so that the district health department does not demand doctors.
