Register mass leave, threaten agitation
Srinagar: The employees at SKIMS while protesting against hospital authorities on Friday over what they termed ‘anarchic’ attitude both against patients and hospital employees, decided to go for the mass leave and halt the facilities of the transport to the senior officials of the hospital.
According to the KNS reports, the employees while protesting in the hospital premises against the director and other senior officials stated that one employee namely Farooq Ahmad Sanga suffered the serious brain hemorrhage on June 7. He was admitted in the hospital after that. The protesting employees stated that the family of the patient was told to purchase the items needed for the surgery worth 70 thousand rupees. After the same was done by Farooq’s family, the doctors told them to shift him to home and that surgery will not be carried. “Without any reason, the doctors asked Farooq’s son to shift his father to home that too in the condition of coma. If such is the treatment given to the employee of the hospital what would be the condition of the general patients,” said one of the protesting employee.
They stated that Farooq who works as the helper in SKIMS was in September last injured severely on duty when the vehicle crushed him. He at that time was shifted to JVC hospital wherein he undergone three continuous surgeries. The employees said that not even a single penny was given to Farooq by his department and that it was his poor family that had to bear the brunt.
The employees while accusing the director SKIMS of having anti-employee approach stated that he has virtually changed SKIMS into a corporate hub wherein the poor patients have no place. The section of the employees in the Hospital Friday decided to go for the mass leave against the ‘official apathy’, thus choking the transport facilities to the senior officials.