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For being absence during MCI inspection, 194 Bihar doctors punished

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TNN    20 September 2019

The state health department has stopped one pay increment and cut one week’s honorarium of 194 doctors for being absent from duty without prior information during Medical College of India (MCI) inspection. These doctors have also been warned against repeating such behavior in future.

On Monday, a health department notification listed the names of 26 professors, associate professors and assistant professors who lost one increment of their salary. Also, 57 doctors of Bihar health service cadre working in medical colleges as teachers, senior residents (SR) and tutors also lost one increment. Overall 75 other doctors appointed on contract and serving as teachers, SR and tutors and 36 others were punished with a cut of one week’s honorarium.

The punishment was given for their absence during the inspection of different medical colleges by the MCI team. The doctors of different cadres who were punished for unauthorized absence or being late on duty at the time of the MCI inspection on various dates are from SKMCH (Muzaffarpur), JLNMCH (Bhagalpur), Government Medical College, Bettiah, ANMMCH (Gaya), Vardhman Institute Pawapuri, Jannayak Karpoori Thakur Medical College and Hospital (Madhepura) and NMCH (Patna).

Principal Secretary (health) Sanjay Kumar said that it was very sad to see that such a large number of doctors were absent from duty during MCI inspection of their medical colleges. The health department has taken this action under its zero tolerance policy for indiscipline and warning has been issued to these doctors not to repeat such indiscipline in future.

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