AMED TIMES - The allegation that Diyarbakır Province Health Director Hakan Pamukçu instructed his staff to solicit likes and retweets on social media has been widely covered in the national press. However, the Diyarbakır Health Directorate has not yet officially commented on whether such an instruction exists or whether the director is aware of it.
Patients are struggling to access healthcare due to staff shortages.
Allegations that the administration is harassing midwives and nurses at Diyarbakır Women's and Maternity Hospital have led to many healthcare workers taking sick leave for various reasons. This has led to serious problems in the hospital. Due to the lack of sufficient staff, the Provincial Health Directorate received temporary staff support from Gazi Yaşargil Training and Research Hospital and Selahattin Eyyubi State Hospital. However, this step was not enough to solve the problem. Patients are struggling to access medical care due to staff shortages, and the lack of permanent solutions is increasing patient suffering.
Due to the insufficient number of doctors, patients have to wait for a long time.
There are similar problems at Gazi Yaşargil Training and Research Hospital and Selahattin Eyyubi State Hospital. In addition to staff shortages, frequent lift breakdowns, neglect of hygiene regulations and inadequate air conditioning in these hospitals are causing suffering for patients and their families. Patients also have to wait a long time due to the insufficient number of doctors in the polyclinics.
Such practises are unethical.
While all these negative things are going on, it is claimed that Diyarbakır Province Health Director Hakan Pamukçu has been publishing posts on his own social media account about the quality of services in the hospitals and asking for these posts to be liked and retweeted. These posts by Pamukçu were criticised by hospital employees because they were published on his personal account and not on the institutional account of the Provincial Health Directorate and because he made it mandatory for these posts to be liked. Health employees emphasised that the promotion of services should be done through institutional accounts and that such posts are already the responsibility of the person holding the office due to the concept of the welfare state, and they emphasised that such practises are unethical.