Telangana - General transfers trigger disgruntlement among government doctors
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.
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."
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.
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.
• 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