Over thousand doctors dismissed
PTI | HT Correspondent, Lucknow
May 07, 2010 03:59 PM IST
45 out of the 1053 doctors dismissed are women.
Taking doctors to task for absenting themselves from work, government has dismissed over a thousand medicos from service. 1,053 doctors, missing from work for nearly two decades without informing the authorities, have been dismissed from service following an approval from Uttar Pradesh Governor B L Joshi, officials said.
The doctors were either involved in private practice or were trying to evade new postings at other places, they said, adding that among those dismissed were 45 women.
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The complaint against some doctors even dates back to 1991-92 period, they said.
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