Mismanagement, discrepancies, anarchy continue to dog functioning of JNIMS
Disenchantment rises, many mull quit option
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, May 14 2012: With disenchantment and frustration against JNIMS administration increasing day by day, many senior officials are mulling with the idea of throwing in the towel.

A reliable source informed that administration of JNIMS which was set up under the enthusiastic stewardship of Chief Minister O Ibobi is marred with discrepancies and lapses.

Among the staff who joined service at one time, different wages are being given to the staff who are posted at JNIMS and those who are posted at JN Hospital.

Moreover, many functions which should be the prerogative of the hospital authority have been taken over by JNIMS administrative staff.

This is one factor for the rising level of disenchantment among senior officials of JN Hospital.

As agreed by the governing body of JNIMS, altogether 227 staff nurses, ward assistants and sweepers were recruited on daily wage basis between February and April last year.

These 227 staff were divided between JN Hospital and the medical college.

JNIMS : Mired in mismanagement and discrepancies

Those posted at JN Hospital are given daily wage of Rs 122.10 each while those working in the medical college are entitled Rs 199 each as daily wage.

Notably, the minimum wage fixed by the State Government is Rs 144 .

Of the 227 staff, 10 staff cannot be traced.

On being checking where they were posted, they could not be found.

Nevertheless, JNIMS authority has been giving their daily wages.

It is generally accepted that bio-medical wastes discharged from the hospital should be first segregated before disposing them in the incinerator.

JNIMS has one incinerator for disposing bio-medical wastes.

But the incinerator remains non-operational.

Otherwise, the institute could have earned substantial amount of income consistently by disposing biomedical wastes discharged from private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres.

Even as it was insisted to make the incinerator operational, JNIMS administration has been paying little attention to it.

The hospital has also purchased a washing machine which costs around Rs 44 lakhs.

But the same machine is being kept idle on the ground that there is no money for its maintenance.

On account of this, there are no clothes for patients who must undergo surgical operations, often resulting in ugly altercations between patient parties and hospital staff.

Even before Medical Council of India gave its consent to set up a medical college at JN Hospital, two dialysis machines made in Germany were already installed in the hospital.

There is a qualified MD who can operate the machines but for reasons unknown, the two machines have not been put to any use till date, informed the source.

In a strange case, all medicines and non-medicine items are being stored in JNIMS.

When these medicines and non-medicine items are required at JN Hospital, its Medical Superintendent has to write to the JNIMS Director.

According to rules, medicines and non-medicine items supplied to JNIMS should be handed over to the Medical Officer of JN Hospital.

In the absence of such mechanism, there were times when many there were times when many of these items kept in JNIMS stores were found to have expired.

At present, it is the Director who is making order for supply, receiving the supply and distributing the supplied items.

Such autocratic conduct of the Director has only multiplied grievances and discontentment among many senior officials of the hospital, added the source.