Telangana State's government physicians are not happy with the general transfers that the health department is implementing. A sizable segment of the medical community is voicing their dissatisfaction with the vagueness surrounding the State's government doctor transfer procedure.
 
Currently, there are no appropriate policies in place to guarantee that government physicians receive the same treatment as their counterparts in metropolitan areas, particularly those who have been doing their jobs for decades in outlying areas.
 
The State government formed a committee made up of senior health authorities to address these issues and create transfer procedures, but the group has not yet turned in its report. Senior health faculty with knowledge of the matter stated that the State administration is rushing through the transfer procedure despite the absence of rules.
 
In government hospitals, broad transfers are unquestionably necessary. That said, there needs to be some parity in this process. Like a government doctor at OGH in hyderabad or Kakatiya Medical college in warangal, a government doctor working in a remote healthcare institution in nizamabad or nirmal must likewise have the freedom to choose. As stated by Dr. kiran Madala, secretary general of the telangana Teaching government Doctors Association (TTGDA), transfers "should be balanced, systematic, fair, and transparent."
 
Physicians who have spent decades working at really difficult teaching hospitals are unlikely to gain anything from the general transfers. Approximately 300–400 of these physicians, who were assigned to new teaching hospitals, were Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors, about 7–8 years ago.
 
Nevertheless, since doctors in metropolitan areas like warangal and hyderabad would receive precedence, they will never have the chance to utilize their relocation choices. If you don't give attention to the current senior professors, who have been employed by the districts for decades, how will you draw in fresh talent? stated TTGDA.
 
Many married couples have spent decades working together as doctors at government teaching hospitals in hyderabad and other metropolitan cities. It is required by gender-based conventions that female doctors get some protection and priority. Consequently, husband and wife government physicians are typically sent to and transferred between the same areas. Additionally, female doctors are not sent to remote or remote areas.
 
Furthermore, the teaching hospital may lose postgraduate medical seats if super-specialty government physicians from hyderabad and warangal are moved. These physicians therefore spend decades of their careers working in Hyderabad.
 
Doctors and Transfers:

• General transfers among doctors in government hospital triggers anger/disgruntlement

• Proper guidelines to take-up transfers yet to be finalized

• Peripheral doctors with decades of experience given no priority

• 40 percent of the doctors in a hospital are to be transferred

• Spousal privileges/super-specialty status enables senior doctors to stay in hyderabad for a long time

• Associations representing doctors allege transfers being taken without proper guidelines

• Senior faculty in districts end-up working for decades before considered for posts in urban centres

• There are nearly 300 senior faculty in peripheral regions who might not benefit from general transfers
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SIBY JEYYA

17/07/2024 07:24 AM