Infuriated at a district magistrate's order to display the five best and five worst doctors, the medical fraternity in Bihar asked Wednesday that the same practice should be followed with bureaucrats in the state.
Pitting bureaucrats against the medicos, Kaimur District Magistrate Jai Singh had given an order to the officials to display the pictures of the best and worst five doctors based on their performances.
Outraged over the issue, the Bihar unit of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) asked the state government to implement the same for district magistrates and department secretaries and display their names based on their performance.
The Bihar State Health Services Association (BSHSA) also expressed its displeasure and asked to repeal the order.
"The order is nothing but a diktat to demoralise government doctors, who are working hard to improve healthcare facilities," IMA secretary Rajiv Ranjan said while addressing a press conference.
"If performance is the criteria, it should be applicable to doctors as well as bureaucrats," he added.
IMA president Arun Kumar Thakur said that the district magistrate's order was illegal and would "badly affect the health delivery system in the state".
IMA officials said the government should stop the bureaucrats from issuing such directives to safeguard the interest of doctors and patients.
BSHSA general secretary Ajay Kumar also supported the demand. The directive, he told reporters, had "again exposed the increasing bureaucratic interference in the state's health sector".
He also said that bureaucrats had failed to provide healthcare facilities to the people, especially the poor.
"District magistrates, being the head of district health societies, treat civil surgeons and medical officers as their peons."
--with inputs from IANS
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