SOPORE 21 FEB :- Patients Wednesday protested against transfer of three doctors from Mother and Child care hospital Sopore, in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Protests assembled at Iqbal Market Sopore and blocked roads demanding revocation of transfer order of three special surgeon doctors including Dr. Kaiser and Dr. Rukhsana of MCH sopore
Protesters included women who claimed that the trio are the competent doctors and are serving the ‘people of North Kashmir districts of Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora.’
Mother and child Hospital Sopore caters to maternity cases for three districts Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora.
“The transfer of gynecologists in the hospital will affect three districts,” protesters said.
“It is not for the first time that a specialist and dedicated doctor is being transferred from SDH Sopore and MCH Sopore for no reason” said Mohammad Shafi.
Protesters claimed that government deliberately transfers good doctors under political pressure as ‘politicians want these doctors to be posted in their respective political constituencies’.
Block Medical Officer (BMO), Sopore Dr.Sami told INS that the doctors have been transferred on temporarily based for seven days only.
“We can manage other gynecologist for this period of time,” Sami said.
