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Download PDF File www.freepresskashmir.news VOL 10 ISSUE 27 SRINAGAR JULY 05, 2021 PAGES 16 15.00 FREEPRESS JKENG/2011/36414 : REGISTERED BEAST IN BUSH WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE JULY 05-11, 2021 WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE JULY 05-11, 2021 /Coverstory LOSING DIGNITY By Farheen Qureshi MANUFACTURING ANIMOSITY? By Mehak Ayaz BEAST IN BUSH B Y M A R I L A L A T I F CREATIVE CUT By Sanika Athavale Owned, Printed and Published by: Qazi Zaid | Published from: Second Floor, Aqsa Mall, Jehangir Chowk, Srinagar | Printed at: Khidmat Offset Printing Press, The Bund, Srinagar Registered: JKENG/2011/36414 | Features Editor: Bilal Handoo | Layout & Graphics: Suhail Sultan | Contact at: +0194-2475633 | E-Mails: [email protected] | [email protected] WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE JULY 05-11, 2021 LosingB Y F A R H E E N Q U R E S H I Dignity WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE JULY 05-11, 2021 decade of deprivation has forced dentists to Apersistently press for their demands on the streets of Srinagar. But even then they face the finance ministry’s repeated rebuff: “there’s no budget to absorb dental surgeons”. WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE JULY 05-11, 2021 ver since Sana Altaf Unable to pay back her clinic loan, load at their clinics making them more to absorb the unemployed dental doc- completed her 5-year- she works late till evening in another vulnerable to unemployment in the tors in the public health sector as well long dentistry degree, clinic where she’s being paid Rs 3000 private sector as well. under other health schemes and pro- she has been suffering a month. Notably, not even a single post has grams. We’ve been listening to their from a “professional But while Sana struggles to earn been created since 2008 when J&K excuse of ‘no finance’ for years now.” toothache”. between the two clinics, she says, quacks Public Service Commission (PSC) ad- In 2014, J&K Dental Surgeon Asso- EForced to take a loan to start her own are multiplying and calling shots on vertised 360 posts for dental doctors. ciation held months’ long protest against clinic, this dental doctor from south lesser pay in public health sector in Left in the lurch, dental doctors are the government’s failure to recruit Kashmir’s Anantnag district saw her place of well-qualified dental doctors. currently running their own clinics dental doctors in the public health venture closing as Covid hit Kashmir “People are bound to get a treatment — mostly founded on bank loans. sector leading to the unemployment and messed up the already disrupted from quacks in the hospitals without “I get calls from the bank every day of almost 7000 dentists in the erstwhile things. knowing the oral health consequences because I haven’t paid my installments state. Struggling to earn for her family, the because it’s inexpensive,” she says. for the last four months now,” Dr. Among these 7000 unemployed den- doctor would teach at a private school Jammu and Kashmir government’s Shahnawaz, a dental doctor running tal doctors, almost 700 dentists have in the morning and come back to run failure in creating posts for dentists a clinic in Qazigund, said. crossed the age-limit without applying her clinic in the evening. But the school has led to the rise in private clinics “We’re stuck in a very difficult situ- even once due to the government’s where she taught became shut and today forcing them to charge at increased ation. Government should come up failure in post creation. stopped her salary. costs resulting in the decrease in patient with a proper policy and framework As dentists were often assured with WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE JULY 05-11, 2021 587 posts to be created for the dentists schemes, like Ayushman Bharat or missioner, Health and Medical Educa- in two phases — 250 posts in one finan- National Health Mission. tion, didn’t respond to Free Press cial year, and 337 in another. And yet, every year, hundreds of Kashmir’s media queries regarding The dispatch number of the file even- students from Government as well as the plight of the dental doctors. tually changed to HD/PLAN/68/2018 Private Dental Colleges in J&K and “I’m not meant to answer this ques- in 2018. outside complete their degrees adding tion,” Raj Kumar Katoch, Secretary Post abrogation of Article 370 when to the numbers resulting in thousands PSC, however, responded, when asked J&K was downgraded into two union of already unemployed dentists creat- about the recruitment body’s failure territories, the ray of hope for dental ing human burden instead of human in advertising posts. “What do I have doctors that they had just started to resource in J&K. to do about it?” see, disappeared. “We’re ashamed of how our parents Amid this apathy, Dr. Sana Altaf “The government has been repeat- are still feeding us,” said Dr. Rukhsana keeps shuttling between two clinics edly saying they cannot provide jobs Akram, 35, who along with her dental for survival in her hometown, Anant- to dental doctors due to the budget doctor husband is still unemployed. nag. issues,” Dr. Imtiyaz, spokesperson of “My father-in-law spent every penny “I had never imagined that despite J&K Dental Surgeon Association, said. on his son to see him settled as a doctor studying so hard, I would be struggling “When other professional posts are but it’s very unfortunate that my hus- for living like this,” Sana rued. being created every year, why only band isn’t able to give him back what “Why are dental doctors being given dental doctors face these budget con- his parents deserve. All we want is our education if they’re not going to rec- straints? If they can’t recruit us, then dignity back.” ognize us as doctors in the first place? what’s the point of investing crores of Dental doctors of Kashmir, she said, I would have preferred being a dental money in constructing dental colleges have lost their identity by being “par- technician than working hard all these and increasing college admissions? asites” for the last so many years. years just to end up being a Government’s treatment makes it cer- “We’ve lost all the respect in soci- dental doctor tain that there’s no future for dental ety as well as in our own eyes. We’re who has no doctors in Kashmir.” not looked upon as doctors anymore value.” FP K This deprivation has been created because we’ve been sitting at home when there’s a dearth of dental man- for a decade now after doing so power in Kashmir, the spokesperson much hard work for years to get said. the degree. “Common masses are not able to get Today, we’re left with nothing the treatment from a well-trained den- except with the piece of paper tal doctor because there has not been that says we’re doctors. It’s very a dentist available in the public health disgusting how dental doctors are sector for years now. Government is being treated in J&K.” befooling people by letting these un- But as these unemployed den- authorized dental technicians work tal doctors once again hit in hospitals and run clinics. I mean, the streets lately, LG what’s the point of our 5-year-long Manoj Sinha offered degree when the government is will- them a loan of Rs 8 ingly taking quacks only after doing lakh. an eighteen-month course?” Turning it down, According to World Health Organiza- J&K Dental Sur- tion, the ideal dentist-to-population geon Association ratio is 1:7500. said they’re even But while India has the second high- being deprived est number of dentists in the world of a single with the ratio 1:5000, J&K stands at chance to apply 1:30,000. for the posts. This means the region requires 2026 LG Sinha’s dental doctors in the health sector of- for the population of 1.52 crores, as “hollow promises” by the former min- of year 2021. isters, politicians and governors, the But, the total number of dentists directorate of health services, Kashmir, recruited through the PSC in the eventually came up with a proposal in erstwhile state of Jammu and Kash- 2014 for the creation of posts of dental mir (including Ladakh) is only 543 surgeons and consultants. till date. Since 2014, the file bearing dispatch Presently, J&K is facing the short- number—HD/PLAN/68/2014—has fall of 1483 dental doctors. ended up getting rejected in the J&K Among others, National Conference finance department time and again patron, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, recent- because of the “budget constraints” ly petitioned Raj Bhavan to work out being given as a reason. a mechanism to absorb unemployed It was only in 2018, the file was taken dental surgeons in the Health Depart- into some sort of consideration and ment and under other National Health directorate of health services was asked Flagship programmes. to project a new file with bare minimum But let alone in the public health fice number of dentists to be required. sector, these dental doctors find no and Atal Dul- The directorate then requested for scope for employment even in the loo, Financial Com- WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE JULY 05-11, 2021 BEAST IN B Y M A R I L A L A T I F At a time when an uptownBUSH city pocket dwellers are claiming a beast sighting in their neighbourhood, the man-wild conflict which earlier devoured a five-year-old Kashmiri girl is only growing menacing in the valley.
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