Even after the government orders biometric attendance, the biometric attendance is still in place at Government Dental College Srinagar.
Doctors while talking with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that biometric attendance is still in place irrespective of government orders, “there by principle is putting the lives of doctors at risk.”
They said the hospital is mostly run by post graduates and senior residents and risking their lives needs strict intervention from higher authorities.
They said that since the resurgence of Covid-19 through the past one week or so, many of them have returned as Covid positive.
“We are still being forced to come to the hospital for marking our biometric attendance as there are verbal orders that the isolation period will be marked as ‘on casual leave” means our salary deduction,” they said.
“You can imagine that one doctor being Covid positive, coming to mark their attendance at an already congested biometric attendance point, begins the chain and you can enquire about the number of doctors returning positive over the last one week in GDC,” they said.
They alleged that many of their contacts who are symptomatic don’t want to get tested just for the fear that their isolation period would be marked as absent or on casual leave.
Meanwhile, Principal Government Dental College Srinagar Riyaz Farooq termed the allegations baseless and said that they have already processed and are processing the leave as per SO issued by the government on this behalf.
“I am personally talking to each and every staff including doctors of all categories on phone to take utmost precautions once tested positive of isolation,” Farooq said.
He said that biometric is a face identification type and such allegations come from the only staff who do not want to serve under these difficult times.buy flexeril online https://www.conci.com/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/inc/new/flexeril.html no prescription
“I have to do rationalisation of doctors as well and call staff who are already on leave,” he said, while suggesting that such elements shouldn’t be encouraged under these difficult conditions—(KNO)