The director of medical education, Telangana, under DME (Directorate Of Medical Education) control institutions suspended 27 doctors from Government hospitals from their duties under rule 10 e of Telangana state and subordinate Services Rules-1996. It was learnt that many doctors took an unauthorised break from their responsibilities and didn’t show up for many months causing irreparable loss in the hospitals and medical colleges.
Reportedly, owing to the Covid-19 impact the health sector was shattered and the down fall of the economy affected the jobs of front line health workers and doctors in government hospitals. With that their unauthorised leave was apparently stretched more.
A health department spokesman stated that the doctors were absent for a prolonged period of months and even years and never intimated about their whereabouts or their return. Most of the doctors were known to be working in Dubai. They are learnt to be assistant professors in different departments such as Neurology, Anatomy, obstetrics, gynaecology, Anaesthesia, gastroenterology etc.
Their absence not only affected the day to day functioning but also blocked seats and we could not recruit staff on blockage of crucial seats in several departments, which shown an adverse impact in medical colleges and health sector, said a superintendent of a hospital.
Termination orders were issued and the head of the institutions were ordained to terminate all the doctors as mentioned in the notice, available in the DME website of Telangana.