SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Aug 14: The Jharkhand State Medical and Public Health Employees Association (JSMPHEA) is on the boil over the transfer of the state office bearers from the headquarters of the Dhanbad Civil Surgeon(CS) office.
The new Civil Surgeon of Dhanbad, Dr CB Pratapan, has transferred seven employees, including JSMPHEA state general secretary Sanjut Sahay and district health employees body treasurer Dayanand Prasad to different places from the district headquarter.
The Jharkhand State Non-Gazetted Employees Federation (JSNGEF), the frontal organization of state government employees, including 62,000 health staff, has strongly protested the step of the Dhanbad Civil Surgeon and asked him to withdraw it immediately as per established guidelines of the state government.
Civil Surgeon Dr Pratapan did not receive calls despite repeated attempts.
JSNGEF general secretary Ashok Singh Nayan said that as per state government guidelines, no association office bearer can be transferred from headquarters (CS office) till he/she is in the post of employee’s body. Sanju Sahay is the state general of health employees’ association. So, a transfer order against him is illegal, he added.
“Dr CB Pratapan has done it in lack of proper experience and information as he was Vector Borne Diseases (VBD) officer in Hazaribag and sent to Dhanbad as Civil Surgeon. So, the State Federation demands to withdraw the transfer order against the employees’ body office-bearer immediately as per government norms,” said JSNGEF general secretary Ashok Singh Nayan.
Dr Pratapan assumed charge on August 1 and transferred seven office staff, including Narayan Rajwar, Sanjut Sahay, Dayanand Prasad, Shailesh Kumar Sinha, Jitendra Ram, Niraj Thakur and Ratneswar Kumar Srivastava from the headquarters on August 11.
Former president of JSMPHEA and present patron of the Dhanbad district health employees’ association Dilip Shah said the Civil Surgeon has no idea about the staff of the office and has done it on the directive of a senior medical officer. Health service in Dhanbad has already nosedived. Such a step would derail the system, he added.
The employees’ body office-bearers said that the state government did a mass transfer of doctors but it did not touch the office-bearers of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and the Jharkhand Health Service Association (JHSA) but the Dhanbad Civil Surgeon overlooked the guidelines.
