Residents stand by doctor in opposing transfer order
Residents stand by doctor in opposing transfer order
BOGOR (JP): An official at the Ministry of Health's Bogor
office rejected a demand on Thursday by residents of Mulyaharja
village that their favorite doctor is not transferred.
"Doctor Abdul Mughni is not a permanent employee of the health
ministry. He's been working under a contract agreement," Aisjah
Wan Granie, head of the Bogor health ministry office, said in a
hearing with members of Bogor Council's Commission B for social
and health affairs.
The hearing was held following a protest staged by local
residents on Monday over a decision to assign Doctor Mughni to
another hospital in nearby Tanah Sareal subdistrict.
Aisjah cited a health ministry decree which stipulates that a
nonpermanent employee can not be assigned to work at a small
auxiliary clinic like the one in Mulyaharja village.
"A nonpermanent employee must be assigned to a community
health center (Puskesmas) or to a hospital," she said without
elaborating.
Aisjah also said that it was not her office which had made the
decision to transfer Mughni.
"It was the West Java provincial office of the health ministry
which assigned him to a new post through a decree dated Dec. 17
last year," she said.
She admitted that the hospital where Mughni is set to work had
yet to be built.
"The West Java provincial office is working on the development
of the hospital. It needs his help to run the hospital," she
said.
Mughni, who also attended the hearing, rejected Aisjah's
statement that the Mulyaharja clinic was only an auxiliary
clinic.
"The previous decree that assigned me to the Mulyaharja clinic
stipulates that the clinic is a community health center," he
said.
He asserted that he was ready to be reassigned at the
Mulyaharja clinic, saying there was a job there he had yet to
complete.
"I have yet to complete a recovery program for children
suffering marasmus," he said.
Sofyan, a local resident, suggested that Doctor Mughni should
be maintained at the clinic.
"He has saved the lives of 10 out of 17 marasmus patients
recently," he said.
The council's commission B chairman, Eman Sulaeman, said he
would discuss the possibility of reassigning the doctor to the
clinic with Bogor Mayor Iswara Natanegara. (24/asa)