Patna, (Bihar Times): The state government is to revoke
the suspension order of the 11 junior doctors. The
decision came in the wake of the recommendations of a
seven member committee of Patna Medical College and
Hospital. The committee submitted its report to the
acting principal, Dr C B Chaudhary, on Tuesday. The
committee was of the opinion that the suspension be
revoked as it would facilitate legal proceedings and
also ease tension on the campus.
It needs to be mentioned that on Monday the acting
principal constituted a committee of heads of
different departments. The purpose was to review the
situation arising out of the suspension of 11 junior
doctors and one X-ray technician. It was asked to
submit a report on measures to check the repeated
incidents of violence and to recommend further action
on suspended medicos.
The constitution of the committee followed a letter to
the principal from the health department which had on
June 13 endorsed the suspension of the medicos and
also authorized him to take further action on it. The
seven member committee comprise Dr O P Chaudhary,
superintendent of PMCH, Dr Arjun Singh, head
Orthopaedics, Dr Vijay Prakash, head, Medicine, Dr
Sanjata Roy Chaudhary, head Paediatrics, Dr Sudhir
Kumar, head Surgery, Dr Chandrashekar, head ENT and Dr
Rajeev Ranjan Prasad, officiating head,
Physiology.
Meanwhile, the junior doctors of the PMCH had on
Tuesday once again suspended their stir for seven days
on Tuesday. Only a day earlier they once again went on
indefinite strike. However, on Tuesday they decided to
give some more time to the state government.
The junior doctors came to this decision at the
general body meeting, attended, among others, by
eminent physician, Dr C P Thakur, and others. The
meeting resolved that it would review the situation
after seven days and take future course of action.
On the other hand, one of the suspended junior doctor,
Dr Anil Kumar, has written a letter to the chief
minister, Nitish Kumar, stating that he has been
falsely implicated by the PMCH authorities in the case
to save the real culprits involved in the assault on
the Press photographers on June 5 last. Dr Kumar, who
hails from Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh, said that he
completed his post graduation in Surgery on April 15
and had not been attending the hospital since then. He
said that the duty chart of the hospital can verify
this fact. The letter said that he was in Darbhanga
from June 5 to 7, where he went to meet his wife. This
can be verified by the hotel in which he was staying.
Incidentally his name figured in the list of six
doctors declared proclaimed offenders by a court on
Tuesday. The chief judicial magistrate, Patna,
Raghvendra Singh, declared six junior doctors as
proclaimed offenders in the Press photographers
assault case of June 5.
The five other junior doctors are Dr Kumar Anand of
Araria, Dr Sanjeet Kumar Agarwal and Dr Arun Kumar Das
of Jharkhand, Dr Vinod Kumar Paswan of Purnia and Dr
Sukhdev Acharya of Burdwan in West Bengal. They have
been declared proclaimed offenders as they continued
to elude the police more than 10 days after the same
court issued arrest warrant against them.
Proclamation notices were ordered to be stuck on their
permanent addresses asking them to surrender and in
the event of non-compliance, the court could order
attachment of their properties.
