SRINAGAR: A doctors’ association in Kashmir has denounced the report of a one man commission inquiring into hundreds of infant deaths at the GB Pant Children’s hospital.
The report exonerated Dr. Javaid Chowdhary, the then Medical Superintendent of the hospital.
President of the Doctors Association of Kashmir (DAK), Dr. Nisar ul Hassan said the report was “shocking and painful”.
“It has hurt the sentiments of people of Kashmir and they are in a sense of defeat,” he said, according to a local news agency, CNS.
“It is painful to know the medical education minister’s endorsement of this fabricated and biased report and vowing to re-instate the doctor. The report has been made and fabricated in the cozy office of the babu without knowing the ground situation and without even bothering to visit the pediatric hospital even once.”
Hasan said the “one man’s dictatorial report” had been made at the behest of some top policy makers of the state.
He said that the report, which clears Dr Chowdhary, was in contradiction to two earlier reports. One inquiry was headed by the head of the Medical Institue, Dr Showkat Zargar and the other was a House Committee of lawmakers, headed by now minister , Chowdhary Mohammed Ramzan.
The reports had “while endorsing the flawed system in hospital” indicted the then medical superintendent, Dr Chowdhary for negligence.
