Kuensel reported that the pediatric OPD was closed on 24 and 25 December due to shortage of a Pediatrician. It is understandable and I can agree with the explanation given by the Hospital Director.Obviously, there is a big shortage of Pediatricians in the country with just 5 national pediatricians in the whole country including myself at Mongar hospital and one at Military hospital, Luntenphu.Of course, closing the OPD was just not the right thing to do. JDW has plenty of GDMOs and they could have mobilised some of them for few days. Even experienced ACOs can handle the OPDs to a great extent!
Hopefully, the scenario will improve by mid next year as two more national pediatricians and a Burmese pediatrician are expected to join us.
unfortunately there are no "plenty of GDMOS" in jdw today....as u have said.....they are all kicked to districts to fulfill the 3 docs in districts without looking at work load...what will 3 docs do in haa,yangtse, luntse ,daga, tongsa, bumthang??/
ReplyDeletethere are only 5 gdmos i beleive in jdw now..
I may not be update on that, but the last time we counted, there were 13! Anyway, a OPD does not deserve to be closed. When there is no doc around, our MS goes and clears the patients!
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