SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, May 10: Senior medical officer Dr Ashutosh Kumar Singh and Dr Jitesh Ranjan were unanimously elected president and secretary respectively of the Jharkhand Health Service Association (JHSA), Dhanbad district chapter, at a meeting held in the conference hall of the Civil Surgeon office on Friday.
Other office bearers
Other office bearers who were elected are Dr Sunil Kumar, Dr Manju Das (both vice-president), Dr Rajkumar and Dr Rahul Roy (both joint secretary), Dr Rohit (convener), Dr Sarvojeet ( finance secretary).
Six executive members, Dr Anita Choudhary, Dr Prabhat Kumar Sinha, Dr Sarwan Kumar, Dr Mihir Kumar, Dr Sanjay Kumar Paswan and Dr Visheswar were also elected.
The Dhanbad civil surgeon was made patron of the association.
Giving this information after the election, JHSA state president Dr PP Shah said that at the meeting 30 medical officers were present.
In 24 years of Jharkhand, this was the first time the JHSA state body conducted an election of the Dhanbad chapter under its supervision and all top state leaders of the JHSA appeared.
Besides state president Dr PP Shah, vice-president Dr Sharad Kumar, secretary Dr Thakur Mritunjay Kumar Singh, convener Dr Shamim Akhtar, treasurer Dr Stephen Xess, former secretary Dr Bimlesh Kumar Singh and Dr PK Singh were also present.
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Simdega district election soon
JHSA state president Dr PP Shah said that the body of all 24 districts would be reorganized soon. “We have conducted elections for Kunthi and Dhanbad so far and now the poll of Simdega body will be held soon,” he said.
President Shah and secretary Dr Thakur Mritunjay Kumar Singh said that since the mission of JHSA is to solve problems of medical officers and improve health services, all members have been asked to work in coordination with their respective civil surgeon to provide service to the last person in society.
No compromise on indiscipline
Dr Shah said that the association will not compromise with the indiscipline of any member of the association and will not support a lethargic approach to duty. “But at the same time, it also would not tolerate misbehaviour with the doctor. In Mandu, a head clerk had misbehaved with a medical officer and we got him punished,” said Dr Shah.
He said that whatever incident is happening in Jamshedpur is in the mind of the JHSA state body and will take needful action at a proper time.
JHSA Dhanbad secretary Dr Jitesh Ranjan said that the first meeting of the newly elected body would be held soon to act on issues of medical officers on a priority basis.
