Procedural lapses cited for woes of absorbed JNIMS employees
Health Directorate left in the dark
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 30 2011:
Procedural lapses on the part of the administrative section of the Directorate of Health Services and Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) authority have been cited for the inconveniences being endured by JNIMS employees who were absorbed from JN Hospital.
A reliable source informed that a joint meeting of the Health Commissioner, Additional Director (Health) and Medical Superintendent of JNIMS was held with the Chief Minister in the chair in the second week of March 2010 to discuss the absorption of JN Hospital staff to the newly established JNIMS.
During the meeting, the Chief Minister opened the option of absorbing JN Hospital employees including doctors, staff nurses, paramedical staff and grade IV staff to JNIMS.
Taking a cue from the Chief Minister's suggestion, a separate meeting of the Health Commissioner, Additional Director (Health) and JNIMS Medical Superintendent was held in another room the same day.
During the meeting, the Health Commissioner maintained that it would take too much time to appoint JNIMS staff anew while it would be much more convenient to absorb the necessary staff from JNIMS.
Subsequently, the meeting agreed on absorbing the necessary employees from JN Hospital.
However, Health Directorate, which is the parent department of the erstwhile JN Hospital employees, has no idea about the exact number of employees absorbed in JNIMS.
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Though the former JN Hospital doctors and staff who were working under Health Directorate have been absorbed in JNIMS, they have not been treated at par with other staff who were originally appointed to JNIMS.
For the last two years, the JN Hospital employees, now absorbed in JNIMS, have been enduring various difficulties in their service conditions.
This is in spite of the fact that JNIMS cannot function properly without the staff absorbed from JN Hospital.
Taking due note of the difficulties being faced by their former employees, Health Directorate has written repeatedly to JNIMS authority seeking a detailed report on the number of employees absorbed from JN Hospital as well as the number of employees who can come back under the Health Directorate.
But JNIMS authority has been refraining from giving any explicit response except for providing lists of employees who may return to Health Directorate and who may not.
As such, the Health Directorate is still unable to ascertain the exact number of JN Hospital employees who have been absorbed in JNIMS.
The failure to provide information is another administrative lapse on the part of JNIMS authority, added the source.