Selective ban on private practice by Doctors in Kashmir, Doctors call it absurd

Doctors spend most of their time in their private clinics and are not available for patients in government hospitals,” he said. The DAK president said their attention and time is directed more towards their private clinics. “They use public hospitals as recruiting grounds for practice and orchestrate scenarios to generate business for their clinics. Dual practice creates pervasive incentives for doctors to increase waiting time in government hospitals so that patients are forced to go to private hospitals,” Dr Hassan.

He said doctors misuse the hospital resources for their private patients at the cost of poor patients who cannot afford private consultation. “Various committees from time to time have stressed that private practice should be banned,” he said. “MCI puts bar on private practice of doctors in all health institutions. Even the courts have observed that the academic character of health institutions gets damaged and the profession of healthcare gets affected by private practice,” he added.