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Suspension move riles PGI docs
ANOTHER CRISIS stares the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in the face. Following the State Government?s directive to suspend two SGPGIMS faculty members Dr Sita Nayak and Dr Seem Sharma, many of their colleagues have proposed to go on strike and resign en masse. News of discontent among faculty members has reached Raj Bhawan. The Governor has summoned the SGPGI director with the relevant file on Tuesday morning.
ANOTHER CRISIS stares the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in the face.
Following the State Government’s directive to suspend two SGPGIMS faculty members Dr Sita Nayak and Dr Seem Sharma, many of their colleagues have proposed to go on strike and resign en masse. News of discontent among faculty members has reached Raj Bhawan. The Governor has summoned the SGPGI director with the relevant file on Tuesday morning.
Officiating director of the institute, Prof RK Gupta said, “The Governor has summoned me, but I don’t know the purpose.”
It is the first time in two decades of the SGPGI’s history that directives have been issued to suspend faculty members. The charge against the two is that they went abroad on a personal trip during the summer vacation even though their application was rejected.
The orders have not been served on the two doctors yet as the directive did not reach the SGPGI director’s office till late on Monday evening despite being sent by the chief secretary’s office on Saturday.
Over the past few months, the State Government has turned down all the applications of doctors and the SGPGIMS faculty members to go abroad even for professional reasons. Faculty members expressed their anger in email messages to each other on the SGPGI’s Intranet.
One such message read: “In view of today’s suspension order of two faculty members for going abroad on personal trip during summer vacation, I think it is high time we did something to protect our rights. I feel we should all meet as early as possible since this issue concerns all of us.”
The SGPGIMS Faculty Forum members are planning to march to Raj Bhawan and seek the Governor’s intervention.
“The institute has world-class doctors and surgeons. Sacrificing our financial interests we work here to enrich ourselves. But with the State Government victimising doctors, won’t there be a brain drain? Almost every doctor here can get a job abroad or in the private sector in India overnight,” said a Faculty Forum member.
