HANDWARA: Authorities have suspended nearly two dozen doctors and paramedics for remainig absent from duty in north Kashmir’s Handwara.
An official spokesperson said minister for Consumer Affairs, Public Distribution and Transport, Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan conducted a surprise visit to District Hospital Handwara on Friday to ensure that the people were being provided proper medicare facilities.
“During the inspection, as many as 23 officials including 4 doctors and 19 para medicals were found unauthorizedly absent from their duty,” he said.
Choudhary Ramzan instructed the Deputy Commissioner, Kupwara to place the absentees under suspension immediately.
A curfew is in its seventh day across Kashmir valley since Afzal Guru was hanged at Delhi’s Tihar jail on Saturday.
The Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir had asked employees to report for duty saying their identity cards will be treated as curfew passes.
However, reports in local dailies indicated that employees were facing difficulties to reach office as the police and paramilitaries were not entertaining their ID cards as curfew passes.
