Dy CM Pathak fires three ‘non-performing’ doctors

Pathak, who also holds the health portfolio, said ‘non-performers’ wouldn’t be tolerated in Uttar Pradesh and ordered the officials concerned to take necessary action against two doctors in Gonda and one in Aligarh.

Deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak on Friday ordered for the termination of services of three government doctors for remaining absent from duty.

Dy CM Pathak fires three ‘non-performing’ doctors

Pathak, who also holds the health portfolio, said ‘non-performers’ wouldn’t be tolerated in Uttar Pradesh and ordered the officials concerned to take necessary action against two doctors in Gonda and one in Aligarh.

Meanwhile, the minister paid a surprise visit to the Balrampur Hospital in Lucknow. He stayed on the hospital campus for 90 minutes, during which he interacted with both staff members and patients there.

Pathak was upset with poor sanitation on the premises and asked the officials to ensure that the campus remained clean.

Campaign to stop spread of diseases begins today

Uttar Pradesh on Saturday will launch a campaign to control the spread of communicable diseases, as part of which patients identified in gram panchayats will be offered treatment at block level, said Dr AK Singh, director-vector-borne diseases, a unit of the state health department. Dr Singh, who was addressing a conclave on Friday, said this campaign, for which surveillance teams had been constituted, would be run in parallel with the ‘Dastak’ programme, set to take place between April 17 and 30.