HOD’s private practice may be banned, health and medical education department is seriously considering
: Health and medical education department Can ban the private practice of HODs of various departments of Government Medical Colleges and Dental Colleges of Jammu and Kashmir. For this, preparations are going on at the departmental level. Although such an order has been issued once before but it was not implemented. For the first time in June 2016, the Department of Health and Medical Education issued a circular banning the private practice of HODs of Medical Colleges, Dental Colleges and Subsidiary Hospitals. The principals of the colleges were given the responsibility of implementing this circular but it could never be implemented. Although many times there was a demand to ban private practice. A committee was also formed and the committee advised to ban the private practice of all doctors. Sources in the Health and Medical Education Department say that the department is once again planning to ban the private practice of the departmental heads of medical and dental colleges. Is preparing for. According to an official of the department, the private practice of HOD can be banned. After this, private practice of other faculty members can also be banned. At present there are seven Government Medical Colleges and two Dental Colleges in Jammu and Kashmir.
Two new medical colleges are also going to be opened in Udhampur and Handwara. With this the number of medical colleges will go up to nine. Departmental officials believe that banning the private practice of HODs will improve medical and dental colleges.
Presently there are only a few departments where HODs are not doing private practice. Significantly, a few days ago, the department had also issued an order to make HOD on rotation for two years. This order has also been disputed in medical and dental colleges. Many HODs have termed this order as wrong and are demanding departmental officers to withdraw it. But the officials are adamant on implementing the order.
